Most Gain of Function (GOF) research is done outside of the United States by foreign research scientists. Yet, for every $1 U.S. dollar funded research...it gives about $2.56 dollars in profits to the United States economy. The analysis found that $36.94 billion awarded to researchers in the 50 U.S. states and District of Columbia in fiscal year 2024 supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide—or $2.56 for every $1 invested... Over the past decade, NIH research funding has driven more than $787 billion in new economic activity and supported an average of more than 370,000 jobs per year. https://www.pharmacypracticenews.co...Funding-Returns-2-56-to-the-U-S-Economy/76585 Regardless, the Biden administration had already wanted to decrease the GOF funding in 2024 with plans of eliminating it when/if it found ways to minimize the economic impact on the United States local economies in 50 states... Yet, I believed the funding increased by a few hundred million in other types of medical research involving diseases that have no cures (e.g. cancers, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, and certain forms of heart, kidney, or liver disease. Other examples include diseases like diabetes, asthma, and arthritis, which can be managed but not cured). Some research facilities had begun moving their research to other countries and funding from other resources outside of the United States because they begun to see this day coming "after" the Biden administration reduced the funding of the NIH in 2024. Trump is halting it including killing the new grant awards to foreign partners working in US-led research consortia. Trump administration cited “national security” reasons. I'm expecting the cost of higher education (Universities in the United States) to become more expensive who are dependent on federal funding through the NIH. Top recipients of NIH federal funding includes Johns Hopkins University, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, and the University of Michigan, Harvard Medical School, the University of Pittsburgh, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University and another 100 other universities across America not mentioned here. Federal funding plays a significant role in covering university operating costs, and cuts can force institutions to find other revenue sources, which often includes raising tuition...impacted the most are our research universities (some mentioned above). wrbtrader