Appeals court judges seem skeptical of Trump administration’s defense of capping NIH overhead payments

Federal appeals court judges’ questions and comments during a hearing Wednesday suggested they may be skeptical of some of the Trump administration’s central arguments in a lawsuit challenging its proposed changes to research overhead payments.

The case revolves around a multibillion dollar question: Did the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s premier funder of biomedical research, violate federal law in an announced plan to slash support for research overhead?

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