Slashing indirect-cost funding to 15 percent would mean that “work to cure and treat human disease will grind to a halt,” the attorneys general wrote.

Nearly three dozen Democratic senators, including Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, have written a letter demanding an explanation for, and an end to, the freeze.

But Trump also did something new, signing an executive order ending “the forced use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion” in domestic programs — effectively ordering ...