Public Health (the health of the public—who are each and all of us) knows no party lines. No one is immune from serious disease. So why is the Trump administration doing all it can to destroy the NIH, NCI and other agencies under HHS? Josh Marshall (always a must read) is looking into it:

In recent days I have been inundated by reports out of HHS and particularly NIH (National Institutes of Health) and NCI (National Cancer Institute). I hope you will keep inundating me. You can find out how to contact me through encrypted channels in the footer of this post. Since it’s time consuming to dig in and confirm each individual thread of the story, which I’m in the process of doing, I want now to give you the broad picture. And the broad picture is bad. It’s nothing less than a very concerted attempt to shut down medical research across the United States.