Why is Trump Cutting NIH Funding? | Jay Greene

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4.6 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

American taxpayer money can be used to great effect, and we like to think that our civil institutions would always be dedicated to delivering such good return on investment. But that is not always so. The Trump Administration’s DOGE effort has shed much light in recent weeks on waste, fraud, and abuse throughout the federal government. Now the spotlight has been turned on NIH.

Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow Jay Greene has been studying the federal grant process through NIH for many years, and has warned that the system has its problems.

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0:17.5	We, the people, tell the government what it
0:21.1	is allowed to
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0:23.7	action
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