However, the move comes amid cuts to hundreds of millions of dollars in science research grants and proposed cuts to the budget of the nation’s primary agency for cancer research and training – moves that experts say could mean dramatic losses in cancer treatments. “We’re going to defeat childhood cancer once and for all,” Trump said Tuesday in the Oval Office, accompanied by children who have had cancer. Pediatric cancer research has been historically underfunded, the Children’s Cancer Foundation says, making up less than 10% of the federal cancer research budget. The new executive order doubles the US National Institutes of Health’s investment in a childhood cancer data initiative, launched during Trump’s first term, with an additional $50 million. Part of the new investment will go toward grants for scientists working on projects that apply AI to childhood cancer research.