To the Editor:

As a lifelong Republican (former Guilderland committeeman), I read your opinion about the chaos caused by the current administration and I couldn’t agree more [“Editorial: What is chaos and whom does it serve?” The Altamont Enterprise, March 26, 2026].

However, you missed one very important issue: the impact on science and, more importantly, cancer research.

The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (the leading cause of death by disease in children) has been defunded. National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute grants have had their reimbursement rates slashed from 75 percent to 15 percent, costing institutions conducting cancer research across this country hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

In addition, recruiting top scientists and researchers from outside this country has been significantly impeded. Some can’t get visas but others are quite frankly reluctant to move here.

It will take us years to get us back on the path to curing cancer. Did anybody vote for that?

Paul Wein

Guilderland