Jay Bhattacharya on unaccountable indirect-cost spending by universities: warns against

Bhattacharya warns against unaccountable indirect-cost spending by universities. In defending the 15% cap on NIH indirect-cost reimbursement at his March 2025 nomination hearing, he argued that public trust in institutional spending has collapsed and that universities must be transparent about how tax money is spent (reported by Healio). His stated reasoning is that the cap, matching private-foundation ratios, would force accountability on overhead that had grown without corresponding public justification. Sen. Susan Collins called the cap “ill-conceived and completely arbitrary,” and a federal judge blocked it after 22 state attorneys general sued, with the First Circuit later upholding the block.

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