These are the states suing HHS and the NIH over their disastrous policy on indirect costs.
COMMONWEALTH OF
MASSACHUSETTS, ATTORNEY
GENERAL DANA NESSEL ON BEHALF
OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
MICHIGAN, STATE OF ILLINOIS,
STATE OF ARIZONA, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA, STATE OF
CONNECTICUT, STATE OF
COLORADO, STATE OF DELAWARE,
STATE OF HAWAI’I, STATE OF
MAINE, STATE OF MARYLAND,
STATE OF MINNESOTA, STATE OF
NEW JERSEY, STATE OF NEW YORK,
STATE OF NEVADA, STATE OF NEW
MEXICO, STATE OF NORTH
CAROLINA, STATE OF OREGON,
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, STATE OF
VERMONT, STATE OF WASHINGTON,
and STATE OF WISCONSIN
I’m looking sideways at the states not on the list. I can understand the fascist states of Florida and Texas not joining in, and all the bible belt states, but what’s wrong with you, Pennsylvania?
Good for you if you live in the listed states, otherwise, get to work and vote the rascals out.
Yes! We admire Kris Mayes, AZ attorney general because she is out to protect people as much as she can, even in this magat ridden state.
I refuse to defend Pennsylvania anymore even though I grow up there and went to Penn State. It has always been a mixed bag straddling the Northeast and Rust Belt (with Mississippi in between). Maybe the whole state caught the brain parasite that seems to have afflicted John Fetterman.
Virginia’s likely holding back for something more directly applicable. It doesn’t have a big biology/medical scene, especially at the grad school level.
Now when the science assaults start impacting engineering, which is a big part of 3 of the 4 largest schools (VA Tech, JMU, UVA) in the state, that will probably get a response. Also we still have a Republican governor who ran on encouraging shitty education, though his policies never quite got as extreme as the pre-election rhetoric. He has stock in book publishing, so really all he was trying to do was grift the state into exclusive contracts…and it didn’t work in Loudoun and Fairfax, the largest/richest counties in the state.
His days are (by a single-term limit) numbered, his party lost last-ditch chances for control of the house AND senate in special elections, and expectation is his Lt. Gov is unlikely to win. 2025 is just going to be “pass a budget” and get on with it, other than one more attempt to get a repeal of the 2006 gay marriage ban on the ballot in case of Obergefell being overturned. The governor has no input on ballot measures.
(history – while many states copied Ohio’s amendment text and ran it in 2004 to support Bush, Virginia instead held it back to 2006 to try to support Senator Allen’s reelection, as the state was just beginning its ‘blue-ish’ transition in 2005 as a reaction to the Iraq war and the growing population in Fairfax and Prince William. So knowing Bush would take the state in ’04, they held the amendment back to draw conservative voters in 2006…it worked but didn’t. The amendment passed, thanks to the sponsors lying to the media and electorate about how it wouldn’t stop “civil unions” (it absolutely would and did do that), but Allen lost anyways signaling the growing blue wave. Obama took the state in 2008, though the trend of the GOP taking the governorship the next year continued. Trump lost the state all 3 times, and though 2024 saw a drift rightward, the last 3 weeks are indicating a big spin back, especially for the number of government workers that live in the state.)
Katie Britt vows to work with RFK Jr. after NIH funding cuts cause concern in Alabama
You’re in a sad state if Katie Britt is your smartest U.S. Senator.
Ha, is it? Of course not! I’m stuck in Indiana. A blue college town, admittedly, so it’s nowhere near as bad as it could be, but people at the state level aren’t going to be reasonable or sane or decent. Look at the absolute vile crank we have for a governor now — and the lieutenant governor is even worse. There’s no convincing that slime to be even marginally human.
Glad to still Illinois on there. I live south of I-80 and although my county is blue, we’re awash in a sea of red and we still had 1300 idiots vote for Kennedy who had withdrawn before the general
@ acroyear — Have you noticed how unusually quiet Gov. Youngkin has been the past few weeks? Northern Virginia’s economy is joined at the hip to the Federal workforce. Cutting it back by a 100,000 or more is going to have huge repercussions for the state. Even just threatening to do so is enough to sour them on any MAGA candidate. There’s zero chance any federal worker will vote Republican in November. Of course, Mad King Donald doesn’t care, unless he figures out a way to circumvent the 22nd. But Vance should.
#7. Youngkin did say that those who lost their government jobs could easily get jobs in the private sector since Virginia’s economy was strong (due to his policies, of course).
Not sure about government workers voting Democrat. I know, it’s just an anonymous comment on a discussion board, but one supposed government worker supported Trump because they saw colleagues sitting on their “fat asses” waiting for retirement. Of course, they won’t be the one fired (yea, sure). I generally agree Trump’s dismantling the federal government won’t likely be popular in Virginia.
@shermanj #1 yes Kris is an excellent AG. She, Governor Katie Hobbs, and Adrian Fontes at SOS are excellent reminders that elections matter.
But also this affects a couple huge institutions on the state, too UofA and ASU get a lot of money from them
Just last year my university got $156 million in NIH grants across the health sciences colleges. https://news.arizona.edu/news/nih-funding-increases-lead-impressive-performance-blue-ridge-rankings
The state where I live isn’t on the list: Perpetual Terror.
Actually, my state…California…is on the list, but just barely. While famously “liberal”-ish, there are many Republican districts. Keep in mind this is the state that brought you Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Kevin McCarthy…among others.
Trump says he’s doing one thing I’ve long advocated: doing away with the penny. I would cut the nickel and the dime as well. Difficult to say if he’s just trolling with that. Daily Kos suggests he may have just been grandstanding to take attention away from the Super Bowl and Taylor Swift.
robro@10
Yes, it’s a clever mindfuck to occasionally say something that makes sense. I am pretty sure he does not have the authority to do it without a congressional vote, but the fact that I am devoting any thought to it at all is the whole point. Flooding the zone.
…and expectation is [Youngkin’s] Lt. Gov is unlikely to win. 2025 is just going to be “pass a budget” and get on with it…
That sounds like good news, but it could turn bad if VA Democrats think the same thing and decide not to actually put up any sort of fight in VA, both because they think they don’t have to, and because they prioritize “not losing” over actually winning.
#7. Youngkin did say that those who lost their government jobs could easily get jobs in the private sector since Virginia’s economy was strong (due to his policies, of course).
Which policies? Did he specify?
Robro @ 10…
Minnesota is supposedly liberal, but we keep electing whack-jobs like Tom Emmer, Dean Phillips, and Michele Bachman.
Paul Wellstone is my proudest vote. First statewide candidate I voted for that won. Amy K was the DA for Hennepin County when I first moved out here, so I’ve followed her career (and respect for her dad, Jim Klobuchar, amazing writer).
She’s kinda pissed me off trying to be “Bi-Partisan” in the last couple of weeks.
It sucks that I have more respect for my Rep (Angie Craig) than I do for my Senator. And I’m not really a fan of Ms. Craig. I voted for her, but well, she ain’t bad. (I gots no problem with Sen. Tina Smith… keep on keeping on).
First place I lived in MN was in Ms. Ilhan Omar’s district (Martin Sabo at the time). If I still lived that part of town, I would vote for her any chance I could.
Her, Ms. Crockett, AOC… I might not agree with them all the time, but they raise important issues, and they can do it well.
So, while I still have a little hope for Minnesota (way better than Idaho), I’m all for MN joining Canada. They probably (definitely) don’t want us, though.
As a Pennsylvanian, I’d assume it’s because our AG is Republican, unfortunately.
Update. I don’t know if VA is joining in yet, but VA Tech put out a public letter saying that they expect to lose about $13 million this year in the frozen funding, mostly around their biotech work (which, well, by helping the disabled, also had that “inclusion” keyword).