Trump Voters Get Destroyed by his Latest Order
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How are Trump's NIH cuts impacting red states?
Well, I guess for all of these red states, medicine and health and science is just too woke for you. And now you're going to lose hundreds of thousands of jobs because Donald Trump is gutting the National Institutes of Health and the CDC and other groups that help fund the major universities in red states. Red states are going to be hit the hardest by this move that we learned at the end of last week. that NIH says it's cutting about $9 billion in federal research grants supporting medical research ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's disease. Quote, I think it's going to destroy universities in the short term, and I don't know after that is what most people, university leaders are now saying.
So yes, indeed, the NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, which has now sent shockwaves through universities and science research centers. As Eric Fagelding explains, these great public universities and GOP states will lose at least $1 billion each or total due to the Trump NIH cuts. I wonder how their senators feel about decimating They're universities of innovation. So you take a look, for example, at University of Texas Southern Medical Center. The reduction in their indirect costs, about $160 million. They're funded by about $400 million of the NIH. University of Alabama, $300 million. University of Florida, $500 million.
vanderbilt university 250 million dollars university of oklahoma health science center 200 million dollars university of kansas medical center 150 million dollars university of kentucky 350 million dollars university of mississippi medical center 100 million dollars university of nebraska medical center 180 million dollars University of South Carolina School of Medicine, $120 million. As the Tennessee Holler account, which I like them a lot, which they said, Trump is cutting billions in biomedical research funding, which will have a large impact on Tennessee, including and especially Williamson County. So, you know, I wonder just how these red counties and red states and red areas are going to be responding to this. Eric Feigelding then goes, torpedoing medical research.
NIH indirect grant funding just got slashed to 15%. What does this mean for you? Colleges and universities won't be able to support students. Tuition will increase, especially graduate students and researchers who find cures and preventions for diseases that kill people. Democratic Congressmember Jamie Raskin explains this is yet another deep wound inflicted against American medicine, science, and health by Trump and Elon Musk's juvenile night crew of data thieves following the Project 2025 playbook, which Trump disavowed in the campaign. Democratic Congress member Jerry Nadler says Trump's drastic NIH cuts will set back the promise of life-saving cures and cost American jobs, especially in the 12 mostly red states where universities are the largest employers. Democrats have a better way, fund science, protect jobs, and put progress over politics.
But I guess there's another way they're doing it in Texas, where measles has now had a major resurgence and outbreak in Texas's least vaccinated counties. And this county read 91% voted for Trump. I think their vaccination rate is the lowest in the state. They have measles there, and it is spreading. This is from the local Alabama paper. NIH cuts threaten the University of Alabama-Birmingham and beyond. It just got real in Alabama. This is from the local journalism in Alabama. The National Institutes of Health on Friday night announced huge cuts to biomedical research grants. a move that would deeply impact the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a huge Alabama employer, not to mention Birmingham and its suburbs and healthcare across the state, not to mention human lives.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received more than a billion dollars in NIH funding in recent years and relied heavily on those and other federal grants for its rise to prominence in bragging about setting a $774.5 million budget federal funding record in 2022, more than a $400 million of it from NIH.
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