In a press conference at Boston Children's Hospital, Gov. Maura Healey highlighted the urgency and seriousness of proposed funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health and Medicaid. Boston Children's, the top pediatric research fund recipient, stands to lose half of its $200 million annual NIH funding, jeopardizing critical research and care for children with serious illnesses. Healey emphasized that these cuts would harm families, cost jobs, and significantly impact vulnerable lives, while noting that many Massachusetts children depend on Medicaid for healthcare.
"We want to make absolutely clear what is at stake and who is being harmed," Healey said Monday.
"It's not rhetoric," she continued. "It's not hyperbole. It's a fact."
"Everyone needs to understand how very serious this threat is," said Healey.
"Ripping away hope from families ... who are facing a devastating diagnosis. These cuts are going to cost jobs. They're going to cost lives, young, vulnerable lives."
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