Trump Wants to Cut Billions in Research Spending. Here’s How Much It Might Cost Your University.

A plan by the Trump administration to reduce government spending on research by billions of dollars has raised anxieties within higher education and among those who carry out the nation’s biomedical research. A memo released late on Friday announced that the National Institutes of Health would limit indirect-cost funding to 15 percent, approximately half of the average rate it previously offered. Twenty-two states sued the NIH over its new overhead-funding cap and requested a federal judge issue an injunction against the new policy, saying that “work to cure and treat human disease will grind to a halt” because of the move, which was set to take effect on Monday. A judge in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts on Monday night temporarily blocked implementation of the policy in those 22 states.