The White House has told the National Institutes of Health to safeguard its work from political interference.
The Biden administration is setting up new tripwires for Donald Trump at America’s premier health research agency to safeguard against political interference if Trump wins in November.
The NIH gives out more money to health researchers than any outfit in the world — more than $40 billion a year — and, other than a Senate-confirmed director, has long been able to operate relatively free of politics. It’s not clear it’ll work. Trump hasn’t revealed his plans for the agency if he wins in November, but he could dispense with NIH’s scientific integrity plan. It’s not written into law or regulation. His allies view it as a means to shield scientists infected with progressive ideology, as well as a corrupt bureaucracy that’s too cozy with its grantees, from scrutiny.
Former President George W. Bush’s bid to make the government more like the private sector by limiting union bargaining rights and implementing performance-based pay and discipline systems at the Defense and Homeland Security departments flopped. Trump should have no illusions about what he’s up against, according to Joel Zinberg, who worked on health policy on the Council of Economic Advisers during Trump’s term. “The NIH is an entrenched political organization. They are a very powerful institution in Washington. The directors there often go directly to Congress to get their funding.
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