NIH Killed Grants on Orders From Elon Musk’s DOGE

NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE

Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder. Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

How Elon Musk Unleashed Chaos Inside the NIH

As part of a grant-canceling spree six weeks into the Trump administration, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) cut a $200,000 program for Seattle Children’s Hospital to study sex education among transgender youth. But under pressure from Democratic state officials in Washington who sued the president, the NIH quietly reinstated the funding in late March.The Trump administration hadn’t backed down from its opposition to “gender-affirming car…