Know any kids in your life who want to be a doctor or scientist, with ambitions to cure cancer or find a cure for Alzheimer's that's afflicting a loved grandparent? No exaggeration, what's happening right now means that many, many, many fewer of them will have an opportunity for a summer internship at a hospital or university, be able to do research as a college student, get accepted into a masters program or PhD program. Pitt made the news, but this is already happening everywhere, and it's not just PhD students. Bright, young researchers being laid off, or having job or internship offers rescinded, job postings being pulled... There's a reason this country has been in the lead for so long in biomedical sciences - we train our best and brightest who then go on to do what they dreamed of - finding cures, developing new medicines, inventing new technology to make lives better - all the while boosting the local and national economy. The gutting of NIH will impact everyone in this country, at all income levels, in red/blue states, in all types of jobs - scientists and janitors, food prep workers and lab techs, bus drivers and high school interns.