STEPHEN HOLMES
NEW YORK – Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the federal government has slashed approximately $2.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health, including a proposed 37% cut to the National Cancer Institute. The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium – a network that has spent 26 years developing experimental treatments for the leading cause of cancer death in children – learned in August that it would lose its federal funding.
Make Russia Pay for Its War on Ukraine
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ & ANDREW KOSENKO explain why it is in Europe's interest to mobilize frozen Russian assets to ensure Ukraine's survival.
Clinical trials have stopped accepting new patients. Families whose children were weeks away from experimental treatments are scrambling for alternatives.
But much more than cancer research is on Trump’s chopping block, including the architecture of international peace. Trump has announced plans to halt security assistance programs for Europe’s eastern flank, even as Russian drones violate NATO airspace. His defense secretary, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, has called European NATO allies “pathetic” and dismissed them as “freeloaders.” Josep Borrell, the European Union’s former foreign policy chief, recently declared that the United States “can no longer be considered an ally of Europe.” After 80 years of leadership in the transatlantic alliance, America is walking away.
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