Some 340 employees at the National Institutes of Health penned a scathing letter to agency Director Jay Bhattacharya, objecting to the termination of over 2,000 research grants and the cancellation of over $12 billion in grants and contracts. The letter, entitled the “Bethesda Declaration,” reads, “We dissent to administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.” Some 5,000 NIH workers have been fired in the new administration.

Separately, Public Citizen on Monday published an open letter signed by 6,000 medical professionals admonishing the Trump administration’s cuts to health agencies and the Republican plan to slash Medicaid in the current spending proposal. The health workers wrote, “We are certain this will cost lives.”