"is funding for cancer centers d e i is a fun game we're playing grants that were not advance these are grants terminator is our grants not awarded because the panels work and then we spend seventy percent of the world's biomedical research at n i eight seventy percent and with his six hundred in the world he has cut over eighteen billion dollars in n a h research grants going that's research grants that we use for fundamental basic research that allows us to fight things like pancreatic cancer, gliobastoma, cancers throughout the world and his thing saying that we do seventy percent of the research we are the richest nation in the world we are the ones that have the funds to do it we are the ones that should do it our excuses were the sickest nation so we shouldn't do the research and his idea that we're the sickest nation because of whatever well you know what we are a sick nation but we happen to live long enough to get sick and we don't improve ourselves unless we do the basic research the research that led to things like antibiotics led to things like g l p ones led to things like vaccines which he absolutely hates and abhors leads to things like clean water and sanitation that have led to people living longer lives and we still have to do basic research because finding out the keys to things is not a rhetorical exercise like he likes to do like any lawyer does instead its science its basic research it takes time it takes effort and he defunded thirty percent of the grants going out there and defunded a lot of basic research these are less than for what it would cost america to have our intervention in iran we could have funded all of this basic research that we have done less than the money we spent in iran and yet he's quibbling with them thinking he can play these games as he calls it basic research is no games we have scientists that have left this country for other countries we have people who no longer are in the field of science because there's no grants to support them to do the basic research for which we have trained them to do this is one of the biggest travesties of this administration and rfk junior himself we need basic research basic research is how we will find the next cure for heart disease cancer alzheimer's and the diseases which we would like not to see in our old age or our young age or our kids and he stopped"