Some Alabama residents, who said their lives depend on clinical research, are worried about what the funding cuts will mean for them. “Research is what saved my life,” Helen Beasley McDonald Dodd said on Facebook. “My life was saved there because of advanced research at UAB,” Janet Hinton commented.

UW-Madison said reductions in NIH funding will "ultimately harm the livelihoods of real people across Wisconsin and the country."

Researchers say it would hurt facilities that work on medical issues such as cancer research and heart disease. Elon Musk contends the old policy was ‘a ripoff.’