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Since President Donald Trump took office, his administration has throttled billions in grants for health and science research through orders and foot dragging. There may soon be a rule聽to set this approach in stone.
It鈥檚 a sweeping change that would give GOP聽political appointees major new veto power over money from a range of federal agencies. And that鈥檚 sending new shock waves through Maryland鈥檚 large biomedical research community.
Late Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Montgomery County, whose district includes the National Institutes of Health, launched the Democrats鈥� opposition.
The Trump administration defends its approach as fiscally responsible. But Raskin wrote in a letter to Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and a Trump appointee, that the proposed rule is 鈥渄isastrous and likely unlawful鈥� and it is destined to stifle healthcare innovation for generations.
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