American Universities and organisations' legal suit blocking Trump's NIH research cut

A federal judge issues a nationwide ruling blocking the Trump administration’s cut to National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants on 11/02/2025, after the Association of American Medical Colleges, representing 159 accredited medical schools, filed a suit seeking to halt the cut on 10/02/2025.

The budget cut was announced on 07/02/2025 and would "limit Facilities and Administrative (F&A) reimbursements to a 15% rate for all NIH research grants and have an immediate and dire impact on critical biomedical and health research nationwide", says the AAU (Association of American Universities), which is taking part in a second lawsuit, along with the American Council on Education, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and several research universities.

The association reports that "a cut to F&A for NIH grants is a cut to the medical research that helps countless American families whose loved ones face incurable diseases or untreatable debilitating conditions.

This cut would also undermine universities’ essential training of the next generation of biomedical and health…