NIH Vigil 5/2/26, Anniversary Edition

This Week’s Updates and Discussion

  • Jenna Norton reinstated

  • FEMA reinstates suspended Katrina Declaration signers

  • DHS shutdown ended (except for ICE and Border Patrol)

  • House appropriations rejects the White House 23% budget cut for NASA

  • Casey Means nomination for Surgeon General withdrawn, Nichole Saphier nominated

  • Trump fired all members of the National Science Board

  • Dr. Kristine Blanche, wife of the acting U.S. Attorney General, was quietly appointed to the NCCIH NIH Advisory Council

  • OPM exempts political appointees from performance reviews

  • The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) held its first meeting after unlawfully skipping 2025, voting to push research and policy toward a new official "profound autism" category

  • Supreme Court further guts the Voting Right Act

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci advisor David Morens indicted and violently arrested

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NIH Vigil 4-25-26