NIH Vigil 3-21-2026

This Week’s Updates and Discussion

• Small Business Innovation Research Reauthorization Passes the House

• Judge Rules Against RFK Jr.’s Restrictions to Gender-Affirming Care

• Courts Restore VA’s AFGE Union Contract

• Courts Strike Down Changes to Childhood Vaccine Schedule

• NIH Director Sits Before House Appropriations Committee

• NIH Director Wants to Illegally Decertify NIH Fellows Union

• Inaugural “Scientific Freedom” Lecture Series

• Impeach OMB Director Russell Vought campaign Surpasses 1,300 Signatures