But funding cuts to the NIH were presaged in Project 2025's "Mandate for Leadership," a conservative plan for governing that Trump said he knew nothing about during his campaign. Now, his administration has embraced it.

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump distanced himself from the conservative governing plan Project 2025. But it’s increasingly viewed as a blueprint for his administration’s plans for feder

But funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health were presaged in Project 2025’s “ Mandate for Leadership ,” a conservative plan for governing that Trump said he knew nothing about during his campaign.

The 922-page playbook was compiled by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, D.C.

Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency. But funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health were presaged in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership,