Maine Woman Very Concerned About NIH Layoffs

April 30, 2025 Republicans, Trump Administration

STAT News reports:

Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), the Republican chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, rebuked the Trump administration for cutting federal biomedical research funding, cancelling grants, and laying off federal health department employees, and said the changes must be reversed.

“Proposed funding cuts, the firing of essential federal scientists, and policy uncertainties threaten to undermine the foundation for our nation’s global leadership,” she said Wednesday at a hearing titled Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation.

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#Breaking: GOP Senator Collins says Trump’s layoffs of scientists, cuts to biomedical research ‘must be reversed’ https://t.co/ypGnIIE46O

— STAT (@statnews) April 30, 2025