MANCHESTER, N.H. —

As the United States government remains shut down, WMUR's Get the Facts team is looking into a claim by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Jeffries recently said, "Republicans have effectively ended medical research in the United States of America."

PolitiFact reviewed the numbers and found that President Donald Trump has proposed steep and historic cuts, including a $5 billion reduction in research grants, with plans for additional cuts.

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Under Trump's proposal, funding for medical research at the National Institutes of Health would be reduced by 39%.

"Even if Trump is able to cut medical research as much as he wants, there would still be some $27 billion available to be sp

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