# NIH cuts loom for docs who helped treat cancer survivor Trump honored

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#### President Donald Trump honored a child cancer survivor. The boy's doctors now face his budget cuts.

###### USA TODAY

A renowned medical school whose faculty helped treat a young cancer survivor honored this week by  is facing potentially devastating funding cuts because the White House.

On Tuesday night, the president named Devarjaye "DJ" Daniel, a 13-year-old from Texas who was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018, as an official member of the U.S. Secret Service. The recognition for Daniel, who has dreamed for years of becoming a police officer, was a rare moment of bipartisan unity amid an otherwise tense and raucous joint congressional address.

 highlighted Daniel's case in an effort to prioritize reducing childhood cancer rates, which he touted as a key component of his "Make America Healthy Again" approach to public health as president.

But the touching tribute also came weeks after the  reimbursement rates for medical schools – a measure that colleges and universities have said would jeopardize patients and threaten student tuition prices. A federal judge indefinitely paused the administration's proposal Wednesday, saying it would "adversely and immediately affect public health."



A renowned medical school whose faculty helped treat a young cancer survivor honored this week by  is facing potentially devastating funding cuts because the White House.

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