They want you to die
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I think it’s still insufficiently appreciated that if the second Trump administration consisted of DOGE and nothing else it would still be one of the very worst in American history:
Every night, Katherine Burns wakes up in a sweat. It feels like the world is closing in on her.
Burns, 47, runs a laboratory at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine focused on endometriosis, a stigmatized, poorly understood gynecologic disease. She’s not just intriguedby the complex interplay of the immune system and hormones that drive endometriosis but is one of the millions of American women who have it, suffering years of misdiagnosis, blackout levels of pain and infertility.
She’s haunted by a terrifying prospect: the end of her research.
President Donald Trump’s administration rocked the American research enterprise over the last year with disruptions and changes to the historically reliable stream of federal funding that fueled its science preeminence. While courts and Congress have stopped some of the harshest cuts, fewer projects are moving forward. Labs such as the one Burns leads are running on fumes.
American science is shrinking.
A Washington Post analysis found that through March 31,halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. Biomedical funding has also undergone a shift, the analysis found, cutting the U.S. research footprint across nearly every major disease area — including fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health.
Overall, the NIH supported over 2,700 fewer scientific projects in fiscal 2025, about a 15 percent cut in the number of competitive grants compared with the previous fiscal year. In Burns’s field, women’s health, there was a 31 percent drop in the number of projects funded in 2025 that included the word “women,” after years of steady growth in competitive awards.
And what killing USAID did is even worse. Just absolutely monstrous.