The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
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Everyone and anyone who works in the Trump administration is complicit in the destruction of the best parts of our country. They are anti-American, anti-democracy, anti-constitutional, greed-driven nihilists who have no god, despite them saying they do. May they all be shamed out of public life.
Watching my country commit suicide in slow motion, for no reason, because WSJ and the rest of the legacy media wanted this guy in office so their owners could get tax breaks.
The government often funds research into the basic science underlying many diseases that are too risky and expensive for the pharmaceutical industry to invest in. The pharmaceutical companies take these new scientific discoveries and develop treatments. Trump's ignorance is stunning.
The pharmaceutical industries "research" is paid for by the government and/or performed by the government + given to the corporations to develope the product.
That's been a huge part of the anger around prescription drug prices.
They never pay the gov for the research
Such a horrible thing. $And now 800 Billion not going to the economy either. 🤦🏻 Now these employees will stop discretionary spending and only on necessities. Jobs lost. Medical breakthroughs paused.
Are we great yet?
This is the part I keep coming back to and my conclusion is that Musk genuinely believes that he'll be able to download his consciousness into a machine and live forever once his body gets sick/old
Johns Hopkins will survive in spite of treasolinitrump + his epic hate of everyone.
He is a monster. Monsters don't win.
But they do kill and maim your loved ones.
Remove him + his soldiers from office.
“…research and development…” of HEALTH PROJECTS. The inability to think it through is stunning and will set back important research on disease, treatment, and other critical health outcomes back by years. Not only will more people suffer from diseases, it makes the country look like buffoons.
I wish we could just bar Trump supporters from receiving any medical treatments developed from government research.
I don't know how else we can make these idiots understand that what benefits us isn't what benefits pharma companies, and cures will not happen without public funded research.
They've been partnered with Gaten Matarazzo's CCD Smiles foundation to conduct a clinical study of cleidocranial dysplasia, it started in 2022. I'm patient #0001.
Now I'm worried that we'll never get to see the results of that study.
Maybe $trump will find some new bleach based derivatives to save the US.
Its wierd watching a supposed 1st world country go headlong into the future with some clown running the healthcare and $trump managing medical breakthroughs
I'm curious. Do Wall Street Journal readers want top-flight healthcare? Do your subscribers understand that once we lose our medical researchers as they migrate abroad to promising projects, they won't come back?
Do you get that he is wrecking American pre-eminence?
John Hopkins saved my mother-in-law's life almost 40 years ago when she was transported from nearby Delaware. She suffered a brain aneurysm and the local hospital was unable to handle it. Sad days are ahead unless we do something against renegade FOTUS and his attacks on all facets of health-care.
They want Americans to die in massive numbers - easy way to reduce expenses. You should report on why they do what they do. It is simple really, billionaires want all the money and do not share or play well with others. Past time to tax them out of existence.
If US research is diminished, there are likely to be fewer US Patents in relevant fields, which could well make it harder to make, sell etc in the US in the future.
Trump is going to ruin one of the finest universities in the world. People will absolutely die because of this. Republicans are all murderers and they should be treated as such. Their very existence invites death and suffering. They are a bigger threat than ISIS or Al Qaeda ever were.
Well shit. I was really counting on JHU to pick up some of the slack in public health data as the CDC and NIH were going to be restricted from telling us what was happening.
The one advantage the US had over the rest of the world was healthcare research, not healthcare because US healthcare is plainly Malthusian in scope and design.
No research done here is tough long term research by world’s leading expert(i e🧠not for sale).You are thinking of bigpharma research that’s short term w clear monetized goals(those same treatments are affordable in other countries.)
This is Trump dumbing down world systems to run his lemonade stand.
The term ‘Mansplaining’ has transcended gender. The presumption that you know more than someone else is the epitome of the hubris behind it. There is always a more humble way to check the knowledge of the person you’re presuming naïveté of.
Would love someone who voted for this guy—or whose editorial pages noted “[a] second Trump term poses risks, but the question as ever is compared to what?”—to explain how this betters our country in any way.
But great for the ultra-wealthy investors who own stock in the private corporations that money is going to go to, instead, and that's what really matters.
Like we're talking about men who only reproduce via IVF because they don't want daughters, who fantasize about FUCKING their daughters, who use their sons as blood banks in order to "attain eternal youth," who build mega-mansions with dozens of bedrooms when they're the ONLY ONE LIVING THERE, etc...
Hopkins saved my mother-in-law's life almost 40 yrs ago. Her local Delaware hospital was not equipped to handle her brain aneurysm and transported her by ambulance. She lived another 25 yrs thanks to them. Shame on FOTUS and evil Elon for targeting 1 of our Healthcare crown jewels.
people who have lost their jobs during recessions often reenter academia either as a teacher/staff or student. It's a great way to wait out the recession.
Nothing like hamstringing medical research. I only hope he is hit with a disease that needs more research! That would constitute justified Schadenfreude!
Now now, don't sell them short, they're also doing this to enrich themselves and their billionaire buddies. That money doesn't simply cease to exist just because it's not going to its intended recipient, after all.
This is terrible for the university but can the Canadian University system ramp up to take advantage of the US Government's stupidity? Or the European? #cdnpoli #HealthScience
Insane. What is this about? Is this Trump's revenge against scientists who are smarter than he is? How can the Republicans still stand by him while he destroys the best universities and research centers in the country?
He’s an idiot who found a way to become the most powerful man in the world. He’s sitting in the White House, he has both houses of our government and the Supreme Court.
That’s some idiot!!!!
He’s a useful idiot, puppet & a national security threat. He does what he’s told. His boss is in the Kremlin. We are in the process of losing our country because he can’t see there will be no quality of life for any American if Putin is successful in avenging the destruction of Mother Russia/USSR.
While I partly agree, he is also a vindictive SOB so he’s getting his jollies out of breaking “things” and people. He’s a quid pro quo kind of guy.
The rest of the Rs have always wanted to cancel advances made by FDR, etc. so they’re along for the ride.
It's easier to get compliance with RFK's craziness if your best medical schools are decapitated. Making America Great Again, one preventable disease at a time.
I am a 9-year pancreatic cancer survivor. The researchers, doctors, and staff saved my life. The oligarchs are killing people on the altar of their gluttony and greed. Remember who is responsible as you watch your loved ones suffer.
Ruin the economy, destroy public health and medical research, decimate national security - how is this going to work out well for the "just give me my tax cuts" crowd?
Seems like two sociopaths aren't looking out for any of us.
They work together as systems & individual universities to sue & issue statements condemning the higher ed purge. They organize campaigns locally and nationally. They organize faculty, staff, students and admin. to push back. They put their collective brains together and figure it out!
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They wouldn't be in office but for the racism, cynicism, and willful ignorance of his mostly white supporters.
That's been a huge part of the anger around prescription drug prices.
They never pay the gov for the research
Are we great yet?
People in the future expecting life-saving medicine: ☠️
Note: I guess wealthy people think they can just “buy” good healthcare? But if the cure isn’t invented, then ? You’re f’d no matter your bank account
He is a monster. Monsters don't win.
But they do kill and maim your loved ones.
Remove him + his soldiers from office.
I don't know how else we can make these idiots understand that what benefits us isn't what benefits pharma companies, and cures will not happen without public funded research.
They will corrupt and co-opt what aspects of science they think they can pervert.
And they will destroy the rest.
That is what fascists do. That is what MAGA is.
Resist, resist, as if life depends on it.
Because it actually does.
Now I'm worried that we'll never get to see the results of that study.
Its wierd watching a supposed 1st world country go headlong into the future with some clown running the healthcare and $trump managing medical breakthroughs
Thanks a lot ignorant MAGA assholes!
Do you get that he is wrecking American pre-eminence?
The Trump Leap Forward.
It's their platform
All government employees should walk out immediately.
Otherwise they are complicit in this fascist coup.
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/johns-hopkins-federal-funding-foreign-aid-cut-ca841d31?st=318SJe&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
Who am I kidding… there is no basement. Project 2025 on steroids!
Maryland is working on helping those affected by this hostile transition into communism
That's going to put a serious damper on the kind of creative rapid response we saw from JHU/JHMI in 2020.
This is Trump dumbing down world systems to run his lemonade stand.
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I cannot stress ENOUGH that NOTHING is "too weird" for these people. THEY ARE WEIRD, in all the absolute worst possible ways.
This plan will cut off that possibility entirely.
Nuts
Let's hope next time he really croaks
That’s some idiot!!!!
The rest of the Rs have always wanted to cancel advances made by FDR, etc. so they’re along for the ride.
i’m confused.
This interruption in research will cost lives. #Insanity
Seems like two sociopaths aren't looking out for any of us.
https://archive.is/NiSv1