from email - blog notice from State ALZ support network / foundation:
Sequester Jeopardizes Alzheimer’s Disease ResearchMandatory cuts to hundreds of federal programs went into effect last week after federal budget talks in Congress produced no results. One of the programs on the chopping block is research funded through the National Institutes of Health. The cuts under the sequester could impact research in progress right now, approved trials and impede future projects. The far-reaching consequences are staggering, and they are compounded by the fact that we have an aging population that is looking to science to unlock the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease.
A sequester is the formal term for mandatory cuts to federal programs – the process of cordoning off money that may have been authorized by Congress but is now prohibited from being spent. Literally, the money is being “sequestered” – taken away from the federal agencies. The process has been used over the years in other budgets, but now the federal government may be one of the biggest sequestrations of all time: $1.2 trillion in mandatory cuts – half from the military, half from domestic programs. The sequester was invented as part of the debt limit law last year and was meant to act as a punishment of sorts if the deficit supercommittee didn’t come up with a complete package to cut the deficit. Since the supercommittee process yielded no results, the sequester went into effect March 1.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please call U.S. Senator Carl Levin's office at 202.224.6221 and ask him to stop the cuts to Alzheimer's disease research.
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