“Republicans have effectively ended medical research in the United States of America.”
What PolitiFact found
During his second term, President Donald Trump has already eliminated grants, capped indirect research funding and reduced employment at agencies involved in medical research. He’s also proposed aggressive medical research cuts at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies starting in 2026. If Trump gets his way on cutting NIH funding by 39%, the institutes would still be budgeted for more than $27 billion in fiscal year 2026. Appropriations committees in both the Senate and the Hou...
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In short
Hakeem Jeffries (House Minority Leader) made this claim around 24 September 2025. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 September 2025, 5 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Hakeem Jeffries has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQpKqfkkUD0&t=213s
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