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NIH and the threat of impoundment

The waning weeks of summer are usually the busiest ones for National Institutes of Health officials who oversee the agency’s multibillion-dollar grants portfolio. It’s always a mad-dash to the finish line. This year, though, their task has turned herculean after the months-long push from President Trump to intentionally delay or withhold the agency’s funds appropriated by Congress.

Since January, the apparatus of awards and disbursements has been systematically gummed up by the increased involv

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