CA is judging the Trump administration because of redundancies for research funding

California and 21 other states have been tried The Trump administration to stop reducing key universities for funding are relying on research and discoveries.

Last Friday National Health Institutes issued a note which shows that this would reduce the “indirect cost percentages” that universities receive from the agency to 15%, almost half of the average rate which Current Camps are currently receivingS This is money that does not fund specific research, but instead help research facilities maintain expensive laboratories and equipment while paying for administrative maintenance, staff maintenance and utility costs.

Universities in California are major recipients of research dollars from National Health Institutes, including the University of California, which received more than $ 2 billion For studies in 2023-24. The California State University System received $ 158 million in the last audited year, said the costumeS

“This action by the Agency will lead to cuts, suspension of clinical trials, violation of current research programs and laboratory closure,” the case said this morning in the US District Court for Massachusetts.

“This is not only an attack on science, but also in American health letters. We have to face these harmful, delusional actions, “said UC President Michael Drake, in a statementS UC supports the case.

National health institutes have said they will apply interest reduction today. By justifying the decision, the agency’s memorandum said that private foundations that fund scientific research limited the percentage to 15%. President Donald Trump in his first term tried to limit the agency funding with 20% and force Other consolidationsS These efforts, part of his first budget offer, failed. Instead Approved funding increase for the historical agency.

The Association of American Universities, a coalition of best research institutions, explains that “(U) Nielei – not the Federal Government – take the risk of building the necessary infrastructure in support of this study in anticipation that their research faculty will compete successfully for federal research grants and thus will be restored to part of the related With them infrastructure costs. “

The claim claims that the reduction of indirect cost can be usedS He also notes that universities Negotiating the indirect costs with the federal government Following the existing federal rules.

General lawyers representing the countries in the case also states that indirect costs allow universities to support the infrastructure where federal funded studies are carried out. “For example, a university that is funded to conduct cancer therapy tests should also fund the physical maintenance of a laboratory and pay for the staff that manage the laboratory and laboratory equipment, such as operational staff, which are not researchers themselves.” Indirect costs support all this.

The claim is the state effort of the state to dispute the efforts of the Trump administration to suspend or limit federal funding, including money for research. Last week California General Prosecutor Rob Bont helped Lead a suit This led to another federal judge ordering the Trump administration To suspend its financing freezing trillion dollars of federal grants to countries and agencies. Then his bonus and his colleagues complained that these freezing was still happening. The same judge today ordered federal government again to comply with the cancellation order orderS

What effect these court cases will have on the White House is not clear. On Sunday Vice President JD Vance wrote in social media that “Judges have no right to control the legal authority of the executive power.” News have indicated that the US Constitution allows a judicial Review of the Executive Branch.

Vance’s statement has caused noise of criticism from legal analysts and democrats. The argument that underlies the language of the Vice President can open the door to a script in which the “constitution breaks down” said a legal thinkerS

So far At least 10 judges have stopped Trump’s actionsS

In related federal news. American senators including Alex Padila of California, have sent a letter Of the US Department of Education, looking for answers to questions about whether a department led by billionaire Elon Musk has access to recipients of recipients of a student loan.

Senators, referring to news reports, said access to the “raises questions about the potential exposures of private data of Americans, abuse of the Trump administration and whether the employees who have access to the data may have violated the law or Federal governmental procedures for processing sensitive information, “their letter said.

The UC Student Association, the Student Organization of the System, filed a case against the Trump administration last week over the access of Musk’s team to this dataS