Since Inauguration Day, the Trump administration has repeatedly frozen and terminated research funding for seemingly political reasons. Federal agencies have ended grants for studies because they ...

U.S. President Donald Trump departs Air Force One on Oct. 30, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. Trump signed an executive order in August that some experts warn could stifle scientific innovation. This ...

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jennifer Klein, director of the White House Gender Policy Council, on the new $12 billion initiative on women's health research, signed by President Biden on Monday.

On May 5, the Trump administration issued Executive Order 14292, “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research,” which effectively ends federal funding for “dangerous gain-of-function ...

On December 18, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order (the “EO”) directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to complete the rulemaking process related to rescheduling marijuana to Schedule ...

An executive order signed Thursday by President Donald Trump would reclassify marijuana as a controlled substance with potential medical use — a designation that will make it easier for the Department ...

US President Donald Trump issued an expansive executive order (EO) yesterday that would centralize power and upend the process that the US government has used for decades to award research grants. If ...

The National Institutes of Health — which terminated several Penn research grants in March 2025 — reinstated funding for three University research project grants in recent weeks. After receiving ...