Tag: Dorit Reiss

Congress compels the Trump Administration to spend science and health funding

  Volume 407, Issue 10530                              
  21 February 2026
WORLD REPORT  Proposals for huge cuts to NIH and CDC budgets have been rejected, to the relief of scientists. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC. 
Congress rejected the Trump Administration’s request to cut the2026 budget of the National Institutes of Health by 40% and to slash nearly 50% from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention budget. President Donald Trump signed the budget legislation into law on Feb 3. However, the relief of many research scientists and their supporters has given way to a new concern: can the Administration be trusted to spend funds as Congress intended—especially money it did not request for programmes it did not want? [Continued here.]
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Trump agenda ignites legal challenges

Volume 405, Issue 10477
8 February 2025 
WORLD REPORT  After just 3 weeks in the White House, US President Donald Trump’s executive orders have caused chaos and concern—and now, resistance. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

“There’s nothing unusual about an executive order”, said Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe, an expert in constitutional law at Harvard Law School. “What is unusual is for the President of the United States to say, ‘I can do anything I want, as long as I package it in an executive order. I can exercise not only the power to enforce the laws, which is basically what the executive branch does, but also the power to ignore law.’ ”  Lawsuits have been filed to block executive orders affecting federal funding, workforce protections, closing the US Agency for International Development, and information on government websites including the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.[Full article here, includes links to updates on legal actions and executive orders.]

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