Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump appointees at the National Institutes of Health from implementing the rate change they wanted to apply to NIH grants.
The relief sought by the judge’s TRO is only for the 22 Democratic-led states that have sued: Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Other states would still be subject to the Trump administration’s new policy. Republican-led states. Like Texas. Who received almost $2 BILLION in federal NIH grants in 2024.
That’s some smart litigation. Limiting relief to only the states that have sued keeps red states from freeloading off of blue states. And it’s a fact that red states will be hit harder by this kind of cost cutting to the federal government than blue states. Contrary to all the rhetoric that likes to disguise this fact, red states receive a disproportionate share of federal funding.
Maybe y’all are happy to now be able to say that Texas will no longer take so much federal money, and will be happy to send responsibility for covering these lost revenues back to your state? That’ll save Elon a good chunk of change.
But how will you explain to constituents the immediate damage to be caused to Texas and its citizens by these ‘cost-saving’ actions?
How will you explain that it’s for our own good to have medical research gutted?
How will you explain to us that it’s all part of a bottom-line business model being designed to take the place of government care for the citizenry?
And what will you do to limit damage to the state that elected you to represent our needs?
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