In New York City, Researchers at the City and State’s Public Universities affected by cuts to Federal grant funding urged the State’s Congressional Leaders to oppose further cuts to funding proposed in President Donald Trump’s big beautiful Bill. Members of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) and other Higher Education Advocates rallied against the existing and proposed funding reductions outside of the Trump Building at 40 Wall Street earlier this week. At the City University of New York (CUNY), 70 grants worth $17 million in funding have been slashed, which has put 100 jobs at risk, according to the PSC. And at the State University of New York (SUNY), there have been $50 million in grant terminations. PSC President James Davis called the cuts to SUNY and CUNY “an outrage,” adding that cuts to research could delay life-saving medical treatments. “But also, let’s be very clear, this is only a fraction of the thousands of grants nationwide that have been defunded and that are on the chopping block. Why? Because they involve issues that this administration has decided to try to suppress. Issues such as climate science, gender, vaccine science, diversity and inclusion, and many, many other areas of research whose suppression is ideologically motivated, motivated by politics and not by sound policy,” he said. In addition to the grants already defunded, the Trump Administration has proposed setting a 15% cap on indirect cost reimbursements, leaving a gap many public colleges and universities would be unable to cover, the advocates said.

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