Trump going ‘nuts’ over low deportation numbers; medical experts fear funding cuts could hit cancer research: Live
President Donald Trump is reported to be furious that immigration officials have yet to do what he promised during the campaign and carry out the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history.
“It’s driving him nuts they’re not deporting more people,” a source familiar with internal discussions told NBC News.
The White House rejected the report, saying that “Hundreds of violent, predatory, and gang-affiliated criminal illegal aliens have already been rounded up and deported by ICE since President Trump took office — and the Trump administration is aligned on securing our borders and ensuring that mass deportations are conducted quickly and effectively to put Americans and America First.”
This comes as medical experts fear that cuts to their funding could affect cancer and diabetes research.
The Trump administration is cutting biomedical research funding, raising concerns among academic leaders who said it would put their universities and medical centers at risk, The Washington Post.
The measure was announced on Friday night by the National Institutes of Health.
“The United States should have the best medical research in the world,” the NIH said. “It is accordingly vital to ensure that as many funds as possible go towards direct scientific research costs rather than administrative overhead.”
