Planned funding cuts by the National Institutes of Health’s, the United States' leading medical research agency, could impact Alabama health care, jobs and future medical breakthroughs. On Friday, the NIH said it would make immediate cuts to indirect research costs,

A $4 billion reduction in medical research funding will hit Republican districts and states hard. At least one of their lawmakers seems to have noticed.

The Trump administration’s decision to cap how much NIH will pay for indirect costs on university research grants will cost ten red states more than $1 billion.