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How Trump Killed Cancer Research

Elisa Muyl, Anthony Lydgate

created: July 21, 2025, 10 a.m. | updated: July 23, 2025, 3:49 a.m.

When donald trump moved back into the White House, the United States was years into its Cancer Moonshot, a multibillion-dollar Democratic effort to halve cancer deaths by 2047. The current state of US cancer research could fairly be described as—confusion. In the NIH grants terminated so far, the 50 most common flagged words include trans, expression, diverse, and women. $368M Estimated cuts to CDC cancer research under Trump’s preferred budgetThere’s more on the chopping block. Trump wants to defund the National Cancer Institute to below 2014 levels.

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