HUCTW, AFSCME 3650

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HUCTW (AFSCME Local 3650) is Harvard’s largest labor union—representing over 5600 union members across the Harvard campus.

This week, Congress In a package of spending bills, the National Institutes of Health will see its budget increase by $415 million, in sharp contrast to the $20-billion cut sought by the administration last April, a nearly 40 percent decrease. The legislation, signed into law late Tuesday by Trump, also contains strict language meant to block the administration’s efforts to limit federal payments of so-called “indirect costs” on research grants — a critical source of research funding that pays for laboratory upkeep and other expenses not directly tied to a specific project. Early last year, the Trump administration proposed capping indirect costs at 15 percent of any given grant — far below what many institutions had been getting. Universities and research hospitals warned the cuts would cost them billions and eviscerate studies into treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and a range of other ailments. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/metro/congress-rebukes-trump-research-funding-cuts/