Federal cuts make Johns Hopkins to reduce over 2,000 employees

Johns Hopkins University, one of the leading scientific research centers in the country, said on Thursday that he would eliminate over 2,000 employees in the United States and abroad due to the steep cuts of the Trump administration, primarily on international aid programs.

Dismissals, the most in the history of the University, will include 247 home employees at the university, based in Baltimore, and the Associated Center. Another 1975 items will be reduced in 44 countries. They affect the university School of Public Health, her medical school and the associated Non -Profit organization, Jhpie.

Almost half of the school’s total revenues last year came from research financed by federal, including $ 365 million from the American International Development Agency. In total, the university will lose $ 800 million within a few years from USAID, which Trump’s administration is in the process of dismantling.

Johns Hopkins is one of the best recipients of university funds that the administration intends to cut. And it seems that this is one of the deepest affected main research institutions that are shaking of cuts – or threats of cuts – for federal money, for which they depend on research and laboratories.

In a statement on Thursday calling him a “hard day”, Johns Hopkins said he was “extremely proud” of working on projects, including the efforts of “taking care of mothers and infants, fighting diseases, ensuring neat drinking water and the development of countless other critical efforts around the world.”

In a statement from last week describing Johns Hopkins’ federal financing, Ron Daniels, the President of the University said: “We are more than any other American University, deeply attached to the compact between our sector and the federal government.”

Among the total operational revenues at the school in 2023, $ 3.8 billion, i.e. almost half, received research financed from federal funds. Trump’s administration said that the government wants to make the government slimmer and more competent through, among others, a dramatic limitation of financial support of the program, which promotes public health and food security in low -income countries.

When ordering cuts at agencies, which are a 90 % reduction in its activities, President Trump said that he was run by “radical leftist madness” and was full of “huge fraud”.

Critics of this decision, however, stated that cuts introduce a fresh era of isolationism, which can be unsafe. Sunil Solomon, an epidemiologist from Johns Hopkins, said that the cuts would lead to a revival in HIV spread, AIDS virus.

“What real great nations do helps other nations, but now we seem to be America first,” said Dr. Solomon.

The administration also tried to reduce the amount of money that the National Institutes of Health sends to the university for research, cuts that have been blocked in courts for now. If they come into force, these cuts would reduce federal payments for Johns Hopkins by over $ 100 million a year, as analyzed by university data.

The university, which receives about $ 1 billion a year in NIH financing and currently conducts 600 clinical trials, is one of the reasons in the federal process questioning these cuts.

Separately, the Trump administration was also focused on specific cuts. Last week, it reduced $ 400 million from Colombia’s budget based on the accusations that students and lecturers from anti -Semitism could not be protected.

Johns Hopkins and Columbia are on the list of 10 schools, which, according to the administration, are examined by the Task group for the anti -Semitism of the Executive Department. The administration threatened to reduce federal funds for schools on the list and others that he considers it incompatible with federal regulations regarding civil rights.

In addition to over 2,000 employees whose jobs have been eliminated, the university said that additional 78 national and 29 international employees would be trapped with reduced schedules.

Cuts in Johns Hopkins include programs financed by USAID, with the aid of which American universities cooperated with global partners, mainly for the development of public health and agricultural research. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week that 5200 of 6,200 agency contracts were canceled, and the other programs will be served directly by the State Department, eliminating the need for USAID, which is covered by the Department of State.

Research projects that are eliminated include international work on tuberculosis, AIDS and cervical cancer, as well as programs that directly benefit to Baltimore residents.

Dr. Solomon, an epidemiologist, runs a six -year program in the amount of $ 50 million to improve HIV results in India. He said that the budget cuts in his program would be caused by about 600 people in the United States and India. The program led to the diagnosis of almost 20,000 people with HIV by tracking contacts.

“It’s painful,” said Dr. Solomon. “Stopping funds will not kill you today, but in six months you will see the impact around the world.”

Dr. Judd Walson runs the International Health Department at Johns Hopkins, which supervised a five -year program of $ 200 million in order to diagnose and control tuberculosis in 20 countries financed by USAID

He said that in Kampala in Uganda the program was the only way to diagnose children.

“This is just one example of how suddenly withdrawal has a real impact on survival,” he said.

He said that in addition to losing jobs in Johns Hopkins, the loss of programs would lead to an boost in infectious diseases around the world.

What is essentially USAID closing had a significant impact on universities throughout the country.

Organization called Detention of USAIDwho follows the dismissals said that generally 14,000 domestic employees have lost their jobs so far, and thousands more were expected.

Research conducted by a federal reserve shows that universities serve as the main economic engines in many agricultural regions, from Iowa to Florida, which means that the impact of administration cuts on scientific research will be felt in both red states and leftist communities, such as Baltimore.

The elimination of an agricultural project worth $ 500 million called Feed The Future, which financed agricultural laboratories at 19 universities in 17 states, means that many of these laboratories must flash.

According to Peter D. Goldsmith, a professor of agriculture, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 30 people lost their job in a future laboratory that worked on improving soybean cultivation in Africa, a professor of agriculture.

According to Sidney L. Salter, university spokesman, at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Miss. The fishing laboratory was closed.

Economic financing wave effects are expected to spread through the Baltimore area. Johns Hopkins, who saves about 30,000 students, is also one of the largest private employers in Maryland.