The US government shutdown is dragging on.
My workplace is a state university, so I am not one of 800,000 people who are in federal agencies and directly affected. Yet, the US government is the biggest sponsor for medical research through a number of research grants. That shutdown certainly affects many things we do.
For example, during the government shutdown, all the responses to inquiries to upcoming grant by the government officials are delayed or suspended.
This pending of response slows our planning and preparation process.
There are many other things I can work on, so my everyday work does not seem to change much. Yet, in a broader sense, this shutdown is surely destabilizing environment for medical research in the US.
I do not welcome nor support this government shutdown.
