@repbrendanboyle.bsky.social Too bad you didn’t demand answers about the April 2025 RIF that fired staff that led to these cancellations. Too bad You don’t seem interested in the grants that were funded that list fired staff as active grants mangers a year later.

ICYMI: Boyle Stands with Research Leaders to Oppose Cuts to Philadelphia Health Research Programs and Announce Letter Demanding Answers from Trump Administration

Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, joined Philadelphia health research leaders to oppose the Trump Administration’s cuts to programs at Children’s Hosp...

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#AHRQ HHS’ version of “strengthening its grants process = FRAUD, WASTE & ABUSE. -FIRE FEDS -LIST FIRED STAFF AS ACTIVE GRANTS MANAGERS ON FUNDED AWARDS AFTER THEY ARE FIRED (a yr later) -CANCEL GRANTS THAT ARE AHRQ PRIORITIES -FIGHT TO KEEP FORMER FEDS FIRED -CANCEL ALL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Trump Has Quietly Dismantled the Agency Devoted to US Healthcare Safety, Records Show

Records show the Trump administration has distributed less than $15 million of the $345 million Congress appropriated for AHRQ in fiscal 2026. The agency has fired all grant managers, cut staff by 75 ...

easternherald.com

#AHRQ Fired staff did not depart - they were thrown out. Illegally. New grants have not been awarded since before the April 2025 RIF BECAUSE they fired staff who did the work. Grants awarded since the RIF include fired staff as active grants managers. Let’s avoid revisionist history.

AHRQ Grant Cancellations Escalate Fears Over Future of U.S. Health Services Research

The agency has not issued new research grants since April 2025, with 80% of staff departed, crippling its operational capacity

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#AHRQ Here’s your HHS “reorg” in action - this is a direct result of the April 2025 RIF. HHS is fighting to keep AHRQ feds RIFed FIRED instead of resolving MSPB RIF appeals so AHRQ can actually function. Taxpayer $ not spent on what is was appropriated for & also spent to keep staff FIRED.

Group Says Canceled AHRQ Grants Top $131M Across 28 States

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has now canceled more than 100 grants, cutting off $131.3 million in remaining committed funding, according to AcademyHealth, which represents health-ser...

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#AHRQ Really hope Klein, Chacon, & others will have to go on the record to explain how a grant on patient safety is not in the best interest of the fed govt because it IS an AHRQ priority. Might be as alarming as the NEA DOGE depos

$131M in AHRQ grant cancellations by state

131M AHRQ grant cancellations affect over 100 projects nationwide, impacting patient safety, care delivery, and healthcare workforce training.

beckershospitalreview.com

@blumenthal.senate.gov @hoyer.house.gov @raskin.house.gov @baldwin.senate.gov #AHRQ lists fired Feds as active grants management specialists on notice of awards for the grants they have awarded - wonder if Congress will ever care….

Trump Has Quietly Throttled an Agency Devoted to the Safety of American Healthcare - KFF Health News

Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants. AHRQ hasn’t issued a new one i...

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#AHRQ guess this is what happens when you fire staff & then claim the reorg was not finalized a year after you fired staff - no one from AHRQ was rehired despite the inability to run grants program w/o the fired staff

Trump Has Quietly Throttled an Agency Devoted to the Safety of American Healthcare - KFF Health News

Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants. AHRQ hasn’t issued a new one i...

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#AHRQ @baldwin.senate.gov Oversight not phone calls & press releases is needed

Baldwin Calls Out Trump Admin for Abruptly Canceling $94 Million for Health Research, Halting Clinical Trials

Erratic cuts include a Wisconsin project to improve experiences of hospitalized kids that HHS previously highlighted

urbanmilwaukee.com

#AHRQ When the fed govt doesn’t care about the quality of healthcare

Philadelphia’s Penn And CHOP Lose Millions After AHRQ Cuts

AHRQ cuts halted dozens of grants, forcing Penn and CHOP to close training programs and pause research.

hoodline.com

#AHRQ HHS claimed reason for RIF=reorg = bona fide. Winter 2026 HHS claimed reorg not yet finalized & not completed = info is prob privileged & discovery must be put on hold for months. Sum 2026 Were people fired based on pre-decisional info? @nicholasbednar.bsky.social @altfda.altgov.info

#AHRQ fired more than 30% of staff 4/25 RIF & pushed out more. Caused decimation of grants program No one was hired back. Only 35 appealed the RIF. #HHS fighting to prevent discovery & refuses to settle. If RIF was bona fide what’s to hide?

Welp, after waiting for nearly a year for my (already allocated) funding, my AHRQ R01 was “not awarded continued funding” (aka terminated). After four years of data collection and $2 million spent, we did not receive our fifth year to analyze the data.

AcademyHealth@academyhealth.bsky.social · 4w ago

“People have been hired. Patients have been recruited. Lots of work is going on, and all of that is now wasted.” AcademyHealth CEO @aaronecarroll.bsky.social responds to the termination of dozens of AHRQ-funded health research projects here:

#AHRQ - HHS claims the STATUTE made them do it…. Perhaps Congress could have Dir Klein explain if he even knows the AHRQ authorizing language @raskin.house.gov @kaine.senate.gov @hoyer.house.gov @ossoff.senate.gov

Health Care Agency Discontinues Dozens of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality slowed the awarding of new grants last year. Now it is stopping existing ones.

nytimes.com

Fun Fact: #AHRQ National Advisory Committee (NAC) has not met since BEFORE March 2025 (& staff who coordinated the NAC were firked) Required by 42 USC 299C (not optional) - it’s a SHALL not a MAY @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @academyhealth.bsky.social @standupforscience.net @raskin.house.gov

@vanhollen.senate.gov @beyer.house.gov #AHRQ Are you just pretending like HHS did not decimate AHRQ & it‘s business as usual? How can AHRQ reduce medical misdiagnosis when it fired & pushed out about 80% of its staff. Where is your oversight of what’s been happening at AHRQ?

Van Hollen, Luján, Beyer, Schrier, Van Drew Reintroduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Help Reduce Medical Misdiagnosis | U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-Va.), Kim Schrier (D-Wash), and Jeff...

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#AHRQ Thanks to Grant Witness Roger Klein, AHRQ Dir determined that grants focused on patient safety, diagnostic errors and other topics, which ARE AHRQ’s mission, are NOT in the best interest of the fed govt - he needs to show his work!! @@scott-delaney.bsky.social @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social

Termination of AHRQ grants is the latest assault on health equity and the rule of law. – Grant Witness

The agency charged with finding ways to make American health care more effective has been gutted. Last week’s terminations are just the latest blow.

grant-witness.us

The complete list of terminations so far, as well as grants with slow-rolled renewals, and the halt of new funding at grant-witness.us/ahrq-data.html As always, we need your help to report this information! Submit info on NIH or AHRQ terminations at: grant-witness.us/submit-nih-a... 🧪 #AHRQ #NIH

Last week's terminations at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) total at least 150 grants worth $230M. That is over half of the agency's portfolio. It's the latest assault on healthcare, health equity, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #AHRQ 🧪

Termination of AHRQ grants is the latest assault on health equity and the rule of law. – Grant Witness

The agency charged with finding ways to make American health care more effective has been gutted. Last week’s terminations are just the latest blow.

grant-witness.us

It can’t possibly be that all of these grants that are seeking to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency, and patient-centeredness of healthcare delivery are all incompatible with this or any other administration’s priorities,” said Scott Halpern. #AHRQ When you fire grants staff…

Penn and CHOP researchers lost millions in federal funding for healthcare research last week, forcing programs to close

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality last week cut dozens of grants, affecting multiple programs at Penn and CHOP. “These are not controversial topics,” CHOP doctor Christopher Forrest said.

inquirer.com

#AHRQ Cancels K-08 grants, Cancels K-08 Funding Opportunities. Shutters Training Program Despite It’s AHRQ Priority Ulfat Shaikh, MD, AHRQ K-08 recipient early in her career - now recognized as patient safety expert @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @jeremymberg.bsky.social @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social

145 patient safety experts to know | 2026

Explore 145 patient safety experts leading quality and safety initiatives across hospitals and health systems in 2026.

beckershospitalreview.com

#AHRQ - AND - AHRQ’s National Advisory Committee (NAC) required to meet (in the authorizing language) has NOT met since before the April 2025 RIF - mass firing of AHRQ staff. Who‘s advising the AHRQ Director?? Other Political appointees? www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/na... @kristinafiore.bsky.social

HHS Agency Cuts Dozens of Grants

In many cases, funding had stalled months ago

medpagetoday.com

#AHRQ - There is NO speculation needed about whether the cancelled grants were AHRQ priorities - AS described in the authorizing language for AHRQ. NIH Reporter lists the status of AHRQ grants & includes project descriptions.

AHRQ terminates dozens of patient care research grants: Report

AHRQ terminates dozens patient care research grants, ending funding for projects despite congressional appropriations, affecting key health priorities.

beckershospitalreview.com

HHS Agency, AHRQ, Cuts Dozens of Grants www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

HHS Agency Cuts Dozens of Grants

In many cases, funding had stalled months ago

medpagetoday.com

#HHS #AHRQ Next time you go to the hospital - REMEMBER -Roger Klein, RFK JR & HHS decided it is “not in the best interest of the fed govt” that it is SAFE, EFFECTIVE & HIGH QUALITY. @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @standupforscience.net @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @atrupar.com

HHS research agency ends funding for dozens of health studies

The Trump administration terminated dozens of health research grants this week, telling grantees it is shifting priorities to issues like the “overmedication of children” and autism, according to a pr...

rollcall.com

#HHS #AHRQ when it did fund awards even in 4/26 it listed the names of staff fired 4/1/2025 as the Grants Management Specialists on the Notice of Awards. Not a leap that it would CANCEL grants that ARE AHRQ PRIORITIES & included in AHRQ’s authorizing language. @maggieastor.bsky.social

Agency That Supports Health-Care Improvement Cuts Off Grants

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sent researchers letters this week saying they wouldn’t receive long-awaited funding continuations. The agency cited the “best interest of the federal go...

insidehighered.com

#AHRQ - Fire staff, stop funding grants, cancel NOFOs, cancel grants = fail to spend Congressionally appropriated $ Make America sicker Outcome of April 1, 2025 RIF & DOGE efforts

Trump administration ends dozens of grants for studying patient care

“Nonaward” notices discontinue grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality whose annual funds had been stalled

science.org

#HHS #AHRQ cancels grants that would make healthcare safer. Few AHRQ POs directed NOT to answer Qs from grantees. A functional box will. BUT there are NO grants staff. Political appointees appear to be performing grant functions. @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @maggieastor.bsky.social

AHRQ is cancelling research grants Researchers across the country are receiving official notices that AHRQ is ending grants that had already gone months without funding open.substack.com/pub/ahsituat...

AHRQ awards are being mass terminated. If you've received a termination notice for an AHRQ grant, please let us (Grant Witness) know! https://grant-witness.us/submit-nih-ahrq.html #AHRQ #HHS #Research #HealthResearch #Science

‼️ AHRQ is in the midst of a mass grant termination event. We (at Grant Witness) need your help to launch a tracker ASAP. If you received an AHRQ termination notice--or if you know of someone else who did--please submit information about the grant here: grant-witness.us/submit-nih.h...