This month, the Trump administration has begun an attack on public research to further their extreme, right-wing agenda: freezing federal grants, undermining university budgets, censoring research on public health and climate change, and targeting workers at the NIH, CDC, NSF, and FDA. Most significantly, on Friday, February 7th, the NIH announced that it would be sharply lowering its indirect cost rate, a reckless divestment from public higher education that would disrupt scientific innovation and economic growth.
From coast to coast, Academic Workers are organizing through our unions to defend scientific research in the public interest.
- On Wednesday, February 19, join academic workers across the country for a Day of Action to protect research in the public interest from the extreme right.
- How would NIH funding disruptions affect you? To help the public and legislators understand what is at stake, CGPU members are sharing their stories about how their research advances the public good and how NIH funding disruptions would impact them.