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applegrove

(133,476 posts) Thu Jun 11, 2026, 04:17 PM 8 hrs ago

Despite Trump cuts, mRNA cancer vaccines advance:

This is amazing news, and I hope the brain worm healthcare lunatic wonâ€™t squash this advancement in medicine.

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
— AuntBunny (@auntbunny.bsky.social) 2026-06-11T02:13:12.301Z

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Despite Trump cuts, mRNA cancer vaccines advance: (Original Post) applegrove 8 hrs ago OP

Stand up for science! Vought OMB changes to turn... pat_k 7 hrs ago #1

Not really surprising. Disaffected 7 hrs ago #2

pat_k

(14,278 posts)

1. Stand up for science! Vought OMB changes to turn...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Jun 11, 2026, 04:51 PM

7 hrs ago

..the entire roughly 170 billion dollars allocated to competitive and discretionary grants into a slush fund 10 times the size of the anti-weaponization slush fund.

May 29 Vought's OMB released over 400 pages of regulatory changes usurping congressional authority with changes that apply to all grants, not just NIH and NSF. Within those pages:

Grants must align with the felon's priorities, not agency mission set forth by congress.

Right to cancel any grant at will.

Strip peer review and expert advisory authority.

Trumpublican hacks empowered to make all decisions.

Effectively end international collaboration

This is staggering. All agency grant funds are being turned into a slush fund to advance private interests, NOT the public interest.

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Disaffected

(6,646 posts)

2. Not really surprising.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Jun 11, 2026, 04:59 PM

7 hrs ago

The technology is simply too promising to be thwarted by the crackpots and cretins of the Trump administration.

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