The analysis, commissioned by the leftwing Senator Bernie Sanders, found that as of April, at least $13.5 billion in health funding had been terminated.
US President Donald Trump's administration slashed cancer research funding by 31 per cent in the first three months of 2025 compared to the same period last year, according to a Senate report released Tuesday that accuses the White House of waging a "war on science."
The analysis, commissioned by the leftwing Senator Bernie Sanders, found that as of April, at least $13.5 billion in health funding had been terminated, including 1,660 grants, while thousands of scientific staff were fired.
Among the hardest hit was the National Cancer Institute, which lost $2.7 billion from January to March compared to 2024, driving inflation-adjusted grant funding to its lowest level in over a decade.
"Since January, Trump has launched an unprecedented, illegal and outrageous attack on science and scientists," said Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
"Trump is not only denying scientific truth but actively seeking to undermine it."
Based on interviews with dozens of federal scientists and health workers, the report paints a picture of chaos across the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), led by vaccine-sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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