Before she had even unpacked her Washington, D.C., apartment after making the move from Alabama, Katie Sandlin became one of thousands of federal probationary workers to be fired.

Medical researchers from universities and the National Institutes of Health rally near the Health and Human Services headquarters to protest federal budget cuts Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Washington.

A federal judge in Massachusetts grants a motion for a temporary restraining order against the Trump Administration's defunding of medical and public health research Monday.

WASHINGTON — Alabama receives millions in National Institutes of Health awards, and planned funding cuts from the Trump administration to overhead costs for grants could be a blow to the

Before she had even unpacked her Washington, D.C., apartment after making the move from Alabama, Katie Sandlin became one of thousands of federal probationary workers to be fired.

The fight now unfolding over the Trump administration’s sudden limit on National Institutes of Health grant funding could have deep financial implications for Washington state’s top research institutions.

Medical researchers from universities and the National Institutes of Health rally near the Health and Human Services headquarters to protest federal budget cuts Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Washington.

Washington has joined 21 states in a lawsuit against the National Institute of Health after the agency announced it would cut funding to research . The lawsuit, which was filed in the in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts on Monday,

The new National Institutes of Health policy would strip research groups of hundreds of millions of dollars to cover so-called indirect expenses of studying Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease and a host of other illnesses — anything from clinical trials of new treatments to basic lab research that is the foundation for discoveries.

Data: National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health; Map: Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Visuals Washington could lose more than a billion in research dollars if the Trump administration cuts federal health and science funding.

The 922-page playbook was compiled by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, D.C.

A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.