Stevens Demands RFK Jr. Stop Cutting Cancer Research

As certain cancer cases rise in Michigan and across the country, RFK Jr.’s cuts are dangerous and wrong for Michiganders

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens sent a letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (H.H.S.) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., demanding that he immediately cease all cuts to the N.I.H., especially cuts affecting cancer research. 

Click here to read the letter.

In the first four months of Secretary Kennedy Jr.’s leadership, over 1,800 NIH grants were terminated and other grant payments were not distributed, including critical research into efforts to fight cancer. Those devastating actions have had an impact in Michigan already. Not only do they threaten the incredibly important work being done in Michigan's amazing universities, but these actions are impacting research into how to fight common forms of cancer like breast cancer at Michigan universities.

These cuts come as cancers like colorectal cancer rise in Michigan among young people and as cancer remains one of the most deadly diseases in the United States. Over 600,000 Americans are expected to pass away from cancer this year.

“My message to Secretary Kennedy Jr. is simple: Stop with the cuts threatening cancer research,” said Congresswoman Haley Stevens. “These cuts have devastating consequences for my home state of Michigan, and for people across the country. We have some of the best and brightest researchers and medical experts in the world here in Michigan, and they need to be able to do their jobs in their fight against cancer for the millions of patients and their families suffering from this deadly disease. I’m going to keep standing up and speaking out against threats to vital cancer research, especially here in Michigan.”

Secretary Kennedy Jr. is expected to release part two of his ‘MAHA Report’ in the coming days or weeks.

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