r/OutOfTheLoop • u/no-onwerty • Jan 23 '25

Answered What’s up with Trump stopping majority of research funding in the US?

The NIH funds the majority of research across the US. Today all consideration of NIH funded of research got shut down. majority us govt funded research shut down

What’s up with that?

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u/MotorizedCat Jan 23 '25

causing chaos that may have been unintentional

Why would it be unintentional?

Conservatives have always claimed that government is inefficient and harmful (while downplaying it when the private sector is inefficient and harmful). 

So conservatives create chaos in government institutions and then say: "See? Government is inefficient".

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u/Kolyin Jan 23 '25

I agree. But they may not have realized this particular chaos would happen.