Trump administration directive that sought to reduce overhead costs associated with federally funded research blocked by U.S. District Court judge after 22 state attorneys general sued.

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration’s cuts to funding provided by National Institute of Health on Monday.

A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments.

A federal district judge granted a temporary restraining order Monday, blocking the Trump administration from making drastic cuts to biomedical research funding in 22 states that banded together to sue.

We’re talking about massive layoffs across the Triangle if this (rule) holds,” former UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp said.

Attorneys general sued the Trump administration to block a NIH decision that would slash grant payments for research overhead

The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court in Massachusetts by Democratic attorneys general from 22 states.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) slammed the National Institutes of Health’s decision to slash billions of dollars in “indirect” costs for biomedical research funding, calling the move mandated by the Trump administration “devastating” and a “poorly conceived directive.”

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from making big cuts in medical resea

A judge halted NIH funding cuts that California and Democratic-run states say could harm life-saving medical research work at UC, Cal State and other universities. The suit said the cuts violated federal law.