Trump: Make America Stupid

If the cuts to NIH funding go into effect the cost would be extraordinary for some schools with major medical schools

A federal judge has enjoined Trump/Musk's plainly illegal change to NIH support for indirect expenses (we'll see if the lawless Trump complies), but CHE has compiled some data on the likely cost to schools if the reimbursement rate for indirect costs were cut to 15% (these are estimates based on 2024 data), and some of the (rounded) numbers are staggering (especially for schools with large, major research medical schools):

Johns Hopkins University: $153,000,000

University of Pennsylvania: $140,000,000

University of California, San Francisco: $139,000,000

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: $130,000,000

University of Pittsburgh: $121,000,000

Washington University, St. Louis: $117,000,000

Stanford University: $114,000,000 (the Stanford Provost has pegged the cost at $160,000,000)

 
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