{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/watch-davids-sounds-alarm-president-trumps-cuts-cancer-research", "WATCH: Davids Sounds Alarm on President Trump\u2019s Cuts to Cancer Research", "2025-07-30", "2025", "2025-07", "Democrat", "House", "KS", "Sharice Davids", "D000629", "davids.house.gov", "davids", "https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "KANSAS CITY, KS \u2014 Today, Representative Sharice Davids visited the University of Kansas Medical Center to speak directly with doctors, researchers, and public health advocates about the urgent need to protect medical research funding. She sounded the alarm on the Trump Administration\u2019s recent cuts to cancer research and medical innovation, warning that continued rollbacks in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding threaten lifesaving breakthroughs and could limit Kansas families\u2019 access to cutting-edge care and affordable prescriptions.\n\n\u201cThese aren\u2019t just numbers in a spreadsheet \u2014 these are cancer patients waiting on treatment, students preparing to be the next generation of doctors, and parents hoping for a cure,\u201d said Davids. \u201cHere in Kansas, we\u2019re proud to have world-class institutions leading lifesaving research. Therefore, President Trump\u2019s decision to slash cancer research funding is short-sighted and dangerous. Kansans deserve leaders who invest in their health \u2014 not pull the rug out from under them.\u201d\n\nWACTH: Davids speaks on her efforts to push back against the Trump Administration\u2019s cancer research cuts\n\nSince January, the Trump Administration has terminated more than 2,600 NIH awards \u2014 totaling nearly $9 billion \u2014 under the claim that these research projects no longer serve the agency\u2019s priorities. That includes more than seven grants awarded to University of Kansas institutions on important issues like cancer cell growth, COVID-19, access to healthy food, youth violence, and public health studies.\n\nDavids has taken action to stop the rollback, including a proposed 37 percent cut to cancer research. She helped introduce the Prevent Halting of Active Research Act, which would force NIH to honor existing agreements, release withheld funds, and prevent future politically motivated cancellations. Davids also twice introduced amendments to the Republican budget law that would restore and protect NIH contracts, though both were blocked from consideration.\n\nDavids\u2019 visit highlighted the broader cost of these cuts \u2014 not just in research setbacks, but in workforce disruption and access to care. Kansas institutions are already seeing the ripple effects, with lost funding leading to hiring freezes, paused clinical trials, and fewer opportunities for early-career scientists. Davids emphasized that cancer doesn\u2019t care about politics \u2014 but the consequences of these policies will be felt by families across the country.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T14:40:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/watch-davids-sounds-alarm-president-trumps-cuts-cancer-research"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4693783596158028, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}