Reading Time: < 1 minuteWisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded almost $5 billion less in research grants to U.S. institutions in the 2025 fiscal year than the year prior, a 13.6% reduction, according to an Association of American Medical Colleges report released in August. The NIH committed $30 billion for research from July 2024 through June 2025, down from the $34.7 billion it obligated from July 2023 to June 2024. More than $3.5 billion of that funding difference was specifically in medical research and development while another half-billion was lost in career training for scientists. Disruptions in NIH research support have caused most states to lose tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars.