BOSTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from carrying out steep cuts to federal grant funding for research that universities and Democratic-led states warn would lead to layoffs, lab closures and a curtailment of scientific and medical studies.
U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston issued a nationwide injunction at the request of 22 Democratic state attorneys general and groups representing medical schools and universities who argued the National Institutes of Health’s planned funding cuts were unlawful.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston)
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