US President Donald Trump’s administration reduced the financing of cancer research by 31 percent in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period of last year. This stems from the Senate Administration published on Tuesday, ordered by the left -wing Senator Bernie Sanders and accuses the White House of the “war against science”. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
According to the analysis, the Government reduced the funding of health care of at least $ 13.5 billion, including the cancellation of $ 1660 grants. Thousands of researchers in health care were released. The cuts have also been affected by the US National Oncology Institute, which lost $ 2.7 billion for the first quarter compared to 2024. Grant funding has thus reached the lowest level in more than a decade.
Sanders criticizes cuts
“Trump has started an unprecedented, illegal and unheard of attack on science and scientists from January,” said Sanders, a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Work and Pensions (HELP). “Trump not only denies the scientific truth, but actively tries to undermine it,” he added.
AFP writes that an analysis consisting of interviews with dozens of federal scientists and healthcare professionals depicts chaos within the Ministry of Health and Social Services, led by Vaccination Skeptic Robert F. Kennedy.
Chaos in health care
One of the doctors said at least 175 sets of public health data were deleted in the Center for Disease Control and Disease (CDC), so doctors remained “without verified recommendations on how to treat patients”. Researchers from the US National Institute of Health (NIH) argue that the institution rules “complete chaos” after the abolition of several laboratories.
“This administration has a lot of blood on its hands,” said an unnamed researcher.
Misinformation and vaccination
The report also pointed out the risk of misinformation at the time of the spreading measles epidemic in the US, during which they recently recorded more than 1,000 cases of infection and three deaths. NIH also canceled 40 grants for research -focused studies why people refuse to have vaccinated.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Health Kennedy hired another vaccine skeptic David Geier to investigate the alleged causal link between vaccines and autism, although it was refuted by dozens of previous studies. In the past, Geier was disciplined for the performance of medical practice without a license and for testing unverified medicines in children with autism.
Budget and initiative
Although Trump has proposed a reduction in the next year’s budget of the Ministry of Health and Social Services by 26 percent, it also earmarked $ 500 million for Kennedy’s initiative “Let’s make America healthy” that focuses on nutrition and physical activity and seeks to fight “excessive relying on drugs”.
