Johns Hopkins U. Lays Off More Than 100 Employees Citing Federal Cuts
“As our federal research portfolio shrinks, the infrastructure around it must change in parallel”
So many schools are so bloated with unnecessary departments and staff. No average Americans are losing any sleep over this.
CBS News reports:
Johns Hopkins University cuts 110 workers after losing some federal funding
Johns Hopkins University laid off 110 workers as the Baltimore institution continues to deal with federal funding losses, officials said Thursday.
The layoffs come nearly a year after the university eliminated more than 2,200 workers. In June 2025, the university also announced a hiring freeze and paused annual pay increases, citing uncertainty in funding sources.
On Thursday, university officials said the latest round of layoffs was a last resort, which mostly impacted administrative workers.
“As our federal research portfolio shrinks, the infrastructure around it must change in parallel,” university leaders said in a statement. “Last year, we implemented significant cost-management initiatives, including a hiring freeze, pausing annual increases for anyone making over $80,000, reducing discretionary spending, eliminating vacant positions, and reducing our five-year capital project spending by 20%.”
Cuts to foreign aid funding
The university’s March 2025 layoffs, which impacted workers in 44 countries, came after a loss of more than $800 million in funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
The loss in funding was part of the Trump administration’s cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants for research institutions. The university is one of the top recipients of NIH funding to help with groundbreaking research.
In June 2025, university officials said 90 grants had ended, leading to a loss of $50 million in federal research funding.
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The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research (funded by Bloomberg and the Joyce Foundation) puts out some of the most intellectually void “research” on the planet.
This isn’t surprising, and there isn’t any big downside to it. The programs that are laying people off have been lagging and not producing grant or research funding for years. Their funding is being cut off, or their programs are moribund and at the end of their useful lives. It happens. It’s like trying to continue funding in penicillin research: Alexander Fleming died and nobody really sees a need to fund *THAT* anymore.