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The rule capped overhead costs associated with National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research grants at 15%.
When a grant is awarded to a scientist by the NIH, an additional percentage, on top of the allocated research funding, goes to the facility housing their work to cover these "indirect costs." According to an announcement about the new funding cap from the Trump administration, that percentage has historically been around 27% to 28% for each grant. But in some cases, negotiated rates can be even higher, such as at the University of Michigan where the negotiated rate for indirect costs is 56%.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a $9 billion spending cut in response to a new mandate from the Trump administration. (Alamy/Getty Images)
Earlier on Monday, U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell said the Trump administration had violated his order halting a federal aid funding freeze that sought to pause "all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance," to ensure federal disbursements aligned with the president's executive actions.
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McConnell ordered the government to "immediately restore frozen funding," noting that plaintiffs had provided adequate evidence to show the Trump administration "in some cases [has] continued to improperly freeze federal funds and refused to resume disbursement of appropriated federal funds," despite his "clear and unambiguous" order lifting the freeze.
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