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From the February 10, 2025 edition of Fox News' The Five

JESSICA TARLOV (CO-HOST): I don't know what they are going to do with your Social Security number or what they are going to do with Head Start or Medicaid or Medicare or anything else that they have access to. But the point is that they shouldn't. And you see that. The big one from over the weekend was the freeze on the NIH spending. So I understand there might be some overhead costs, the quote-unquote "indirect costs" that you think are too high, but going to them and saying that indirect costs have to come down to 15% would completely hobble American innovation — 

JEANINE PIRRO (CO-HOST): But without Elon Musk, we wouldn't know about any of this stuff. Money going for transgenders — 

TARLOV: But I just said the NIH. I said the future of cancer research. For every dollar that the NIH grants out, you get $2.46 back and they generate $93 billion a year.

PIRRO: And Trump just brought in $500 million for AI in cancer.

TARLOV: First of all, Elon Musk even said that isn't real money. 

PIRRO: Oh, it isn't?

TARLOV: Well, Elon Musk said it himself. He replied to the tweet. But Katie Britt, the senator from Alabama, had to go out there and say, "No, don't take our NIH dollars."