The attorneys general of Massachusetts, Illinois and Michigan are co-leading the lawsuit. Also signing on are the attorney generals of Arizona, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.
Plaintiff States’ Ex Parte Emergency Motion For Temporary Restraining Order [Dkt. 4] is GRANTED. Defendants and their officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and successors are hereby enjoined from taking any steps to implement, apply, or enforce the Rate Change Notice (NOT-OD-25- 068) within Plaintiff States until further order is issued by this Court.
Notably though, this likely means that the block is only granted in the 22 blue states that sued.
So… Did they ever talk about what they’re planning to do with all this money they’re “saving”?
The thing that annoys me is… even if they genuinely want to save money (and that’s a big if), this is barely even “saving” much money. NIH has historically been a very good return on investment for the US government despite running on a shoestring budget, and that is probably not even accounting for the various downstream applications (like all the pharma industry) that relies on NIH-funded research.
Part of the issue with indirect costs are due to the NIH never getting much of a budget raise and the ballooning bureaucracy… Yes, there are people wanting change for the better, but the current administration decided to wake up to violence by dealing with this in the worst way possible
Yeah sure, they are trying to come up with like 3-4 trillion in savings to pay for the extension and increase of corporate tax cuts that expires this year.
Obviously there isn’t 4 trillion of discretionary spending to cut, so the other half of the equation is paying for the rest in tariffs. If you tariff everything coming in at 25% that’s a trillion in tax revenue right there.
There is no appetite in congress to raise the debt for the cuts, so they need to find the money somehow.
Straight to their coffers of course!