The order was temporarily blocked after Massachusetts and 21 other states filed a lawsuit opposing the NIH funding cuts.

Representative Jake Auchincloss said Monday that he will try building congressional support this week to exert pressure on the National Institutes of Health to halt its new policy associated with research projects.

Massachusetts and 22 other states are suing the Trump administration to stop the feds from cutting National Institutes of Health funding. Why it matters: Harvard University and MIT alone rely on hundreds of millions of dollars in NIH funding to advance medical research.