White House: WashPost ‘Lying’ on NIH Indirect Costs Policy

The White House has accused The Washington Post of “lying to its readers” through an article concerning the National Institutes of Health’s indirect costs policy. 

In the article, published Saturday, the Post reported that the administration is “cutting billions of dollars in biomedical research funding,” which the White House Office of Communications called a “misleading lie.”

Instead, the White House said that the NIH has announced an indirect costs policy in line with what research institutions are granted from private foundations.

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