By Chad Terhune (Reuters) -Dozens of scientists, researchers and other employees at the U.S. National Institutes of Health issued a rare public rebuke Monday criticizing the Trump administration for major spending cuts that “harm the health of Americans and people across the globe,

Hundreds of scientists via the National Institute of Health signed a letter in protest to NIH leadership and recent cuts by the Trump administration.

Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission.