Trump administrations' NIH communication pause partly lifted to allow some purchasing need for research projects

After disruption due to Trump administration communication pause, NIH told it can continue some purchasing for research | CNN Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on all purchasing, including supplies for their ongoing studies, according to four sources inside the agency with knowledge of the purchasing hold. Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell CNN

...The communications pause ... affects contractors working on campus. This includes lab workers, information technology staff who keep the computers running, as well as those who run security at the gates. If their contracts expire before February 1, they are at risk of losing their jobs because renewing those contracts would require outside communication, according to a source familiar with the situation who was not authorized to speak to reporters. 

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