Source: The American Prospect
by Ryan Cooper
“Amid the chaos of Donald Trump’s misrule (with his on-again, off-again trade war causing a sharp slide in the dollar, a rise in American borrowing costs, accelerating inflation, and possibly a severe recession), his attack on basic medical research is getting less attention. Elon Musk’s DOGE goons have slashed federal grants across the country, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is putting through further sweeping layoffs and budget cuts. Meanwhile, Trump’s war on immigrants is targeting top medical researchers. In particular, cancer research and treatment in America is being gored. Development of promising diagnostics and treatments has been called into question or frozen, clinical trials are being halted, and (unless the cuts are stopped) hospitals around the country will be bankrupted. Many Americans will die soon, and many more will die in future who could have been saved.” (04/23/25)
https://prospect.org/health/2025-04-23-trump-administration-objectively-pro-cancer/