91亚色传媒

Extensive staffing cuts at America’s science agencies, including those announced today at the National Institutes of Health, further imperil America’s research enterprise, which for decades has driven transformative treatments and cures for American families and fueled local, state and national economies. We urge Congress to protect this unparalleled research system that generates American health, prosperity and security. 

For decades, bipartisan support for investment in agencies like the NIH, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy has ensured America’s competitive research advantage, with basic scientific research at the heart of that progress. Investigator-initiated, curiosity-driven research — and appropriate agency staffing that is essential to conduct it — fuels private sector advances that grow the economy. These valuable resources have driven medical progress for American families nationwide, on diseases including, heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, addiction and more.  

By weakening America’s science agencies, we jeopardize American progress — now and for the next fifty years. Recent reports highlight the consequences if we undermine America’s research leadership and leading science institutions. One report describes the , with every NIH dollar generating $2.56 in new economic impact, totaling hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in nearly every state. These cuts and policies imperil the next generation of scientists: found that over half of respondents were negatively impacted by recent policies. In addition, further hobble the future U.S. STEM workforce. Meanwhile, who are increasingly uncertain about America’s commitment to science.  

91亚色传媒 stands ready to work with Congress and the administration’s scientific leadership to assess and enhance America’s gold-standard science agencies. But these indiscriminate, wholesale cuts are the wrong way to drive progress. If these trends continue, America will do to itself what other nations could not: end U.S. global scientific leadership.  It will take a generation for America to rebuild. As we enter an era of heightened global competition with countries like China increasing investment in research and increasing need for global American influence, science is a powerful, essential force for American economies, the health of our people and the future for our children.