{"id":5850,"date":"2025-08-05T23:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/gao-says-nih-cuts-violated-impoundment-control-act\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T23:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:02:30","slug":"gao-says-nih-cuts-violated-impoundment-control-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/gao-says-nih-cuts-violated-impoundment-control-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration violated impoundment law by canceling NIH grants, slowing new awards, GAO finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Trump administration violated impoundment law by canceling NIH grants, slowing new awards, GAO finds<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a scathing report issued Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration, by abruptly canceling National Institutes of Health grants, had violated a 1974 law blocking presidents from withholding funding Congress has approved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The independent congressional watchdog said that in terminating over 1,800 NIH grants in response to President Trump\u2019s executive orders directing agencies to cut off federal funding for equity-related activities, the administration illegally withheld funds. In addition, the GAO found that the NIH\u2019s $8 billion shortfall in new and continuing awards between February and July amounted to an illegal withholding of obligated funds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/05\/gao-says-nih-cuts-violated-impoundment-control-act\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Anil Oza and Megan Molteni<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/05\/gao-says-nih-cuts-violated-impoundment-control-act\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration violated impoundment law by canceling NIH grants, slowing new awards, GAO finds In a scathing report issued Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration, by abruptly canceling National Institutes of Health grants, had violated a 1974 law blocking presidents from withholding funding Congress has approved.\u00a0 The independent congressional watchdog said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2216,2158,2148,2144],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-congress","category-nih","category-politics","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}