For more than a decade, the United States has paid China for research into retirement. 

That ended this year when, through the urging of the Department of Government Efficiency, the National Institutes of Health canceled a grant for $1.7 million to the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study at Peking University. 

The stated intent of the grant was to collect information on population aging. A longitudinal study looks at repeated observations of the same variables as they occur over time, often years.

“I’m sure some information has come from this study,” Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal. “But the bottom line is, our relationship with China has changed since this funding started.”

Sessions is the chairman of the

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