Research fund cuts could cost children’s lives, Ossoff warns
WASHINGTON, D.C. - As the Trump istration makes major funding cuts across various government agencies, childhood cancer research funding is now feeling the effects. U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff warns that this will cost children’s lives.
On Wednesday in a U.S. Senate Appropriations hearing about the impact of cuts to medical research, Ossoff raised concerns about the impacts of the Trump istration’s cancellation of medical research.
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During the hearing, Ossoff expressed his concern for families of children with cancer.
He said, “Every parent can understand when you hold your precious, innocent, kind, child, and you fear the most intense fear that something could happen to them, to think that American parents with children who have cancer now don’t know whether they can enroll that child in a trial, because maybe there’s a way to save that life, is devastating.”
The cuts in cancer research funding are a part of President Trump’s policy to cap indirect costs for National Institutes of Health research grants at 15%. This cuts billions of dollars in funding, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Recipients of this cut span across the state, but Emory University is Georgia’s largest recipient by far.
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