内容摘要：Lawyers for the House and Senate have not answered the lawsuit.

Lawyers for the House and Senate have not answered the lawsuit.

, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.”It says: “We dissent.”

In a capital where insiders often insist on anonymity to say such things publicly, 92 NIH researchers, program directors, branch chiefs and scientific review officers put their signatures on the letter — and their careers on the line. Another 250 of their colleagues across the agency endorsed the declaration without using their names.The four-page letter, addressed to Bhattacharya, also was sent toand members of Congress who oversee the NIH. The White House defended its approach to federal research. “In recent years, Americans have lost confidence in our increasingly politicized healthcare and research apparatus that has been obsessed with DEI and COVID, which the majority of Americans moved on from years ago,” spokesman Kush Desai said. “The Trump administration is focused on restoring the Gold Standard of Science — not ideological activism — as the guiding principle of HHS, the NIH, and the CDC to finally address our chronic disease epidemic.”

The signers went public in the face of a “culture of fear and suppression” they say President Donald Trump’s administration has spread through the federal civil service. “We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources,” the declaration says.Named for the agency’s headquarters location in Maryland, the Bethesda Declaration details upheaval in the world’s premier public health research institution over the course of mere months.

of 2,100 research grants valued at more than $12 billion and some of the human costs that have resulted, such as cutting off medication regimens to participants in clinical trials or leaving them with unmonitored device implants.

In one case, an NIH-supported study of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in Haiti had to be stopped, ceasing antibiotic treatment mid-course for patients.who crossed the U.S-Mexico border without parents in what officials say is an effort to ensure their safety. Field offices have been directed to commit manpower to immigration enforcement.

The Justice Department has instructed the FBI to review files for information about those illegally in the U.S. and provide it to the Department of Homeland Security unless doing so would compromise an investigation. And photos on the FBI’s Instagram account depict agents with covered faces and tactical gear alongside detained subjects, with a caption saying the FBI is “ramping up” efforts with immigration agents to locate “dangerous criminals.”“We’re giving you about five minutes to cooperate,” Bongino said on Fox News about illegal immigrants. “If you’re here illegally, five minutes, you’re out.”

That’s a rhetorical shift from prior leadership. Though Patel’s direct predecessor, Christopher Wray, warned about the flow of fentanyl through the southern border and the possibility migrants determined to commit terrorism, he did not characterize immigration enforcement as core to the FBI’s mission.