Johns Hopkins University Slashing More Than 2,000 Jobs Due to Trump Cuts at USAID
This gives you an idea of how massive the US-AID spending was. Many of these jobs weren’t even in the United States.
USA Today reports:
Johns Hopkins University slashes 2,200 jobs as Trump cuts to research, USAID take holdJohns Hopkins University in Baltimore said Thursday that it is laying off more than 2,200 people as a result of President Donald Trump’s deep budget cuts, with another 100 furloughed on reduced schedules. It’s the largest layoff in the university’s history. Johns Hopkins was the largest university recipient of federal research funding, and is the largest employer in the state of Maryland.“This is a difficult day for our entire community,” a university spokesperson told USA TODAY. Affected workers will receive at least 60 days notice before the cuts take effect, the spokesperson said. Many of the jobs are in other countries, since the university specializes in USAID-funded research projects, which Trump has slashed.The historic layoffs come as other universities are cutting spending, freezing hiring and in some cases rescinding admissions acceptance for graduate students as they face budget cuts from Trump and Congress.From Baltimore to New York City, California to Colorado, administrators say Trump has injected uncertainty into their finances, prompting them to move with caution. That uncertainty extends beyond cuts to research grants, and includes the knock-on effect of possible federal cuts to Medicaid expansions, which states might have to backfill with local tax dollars that would otherwise go to universities.Researchers say the cuts imperil critical work investigating childhood diseases, chronic illness and other long-running investigations into keeping Americans healthy and safe. Trump has halted some existing funding for universities, while Congress is considering long-term cuts to National Institutes of Health grants, which typically fund about $48 billion worth of research annually at 2,500 universities, medical schools and other research institutions.Overall, U.S. taxpayers fund an estimated $81 billion in academic scientific research and development annually, more than twice the next-highest country, according to the international Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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