WASHINGTON, March 24 -- Sen. Peter Welch issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the economic, scientific, and national security impacts of reducing or eliminating federal support for scientific research at institutions of higher education.
In his letter to Acting GAO Comptroller General Williams Brown, Senator Welch highlighted how the Trump Administration's elimination of more than 4,000 research grants across 600 colleges-reflecting between $6.9 and $8.2 billion in lost funding-has forced universities to lay off research staff and abandon years of work on projects ranging from cancer treatment to p...