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A 3D-printed miniature model of U.S. President Donald Trump with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) logo in the background is seen in this illustration taken April 23.

U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jayanta (Jay) Bhattacharya testifies during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2025.

NIH officials have denounced their own agency’s leadership in the so-called Bethesda Declaration, warning that the Trump White House’s agenda puts public health at risk.

“We are doing the research that is going to go and create the cures of the future,” he added. But that won’t happen, he said, if Trump’s Republican administration prevails with its searing grant cuts.

Nevertheless, respectful dissent in science is productive. We all want the NIH to succeed.” The NIH’s nearly $48 billion budget makes it the world’s largest public funder of scientific research.