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Trump administration wins Supreme Court fight to slash NIH medical research grants tied to DEI, LGBTQ studies
[FoxNews] Decision overturns lower court rulings that blocked cuts to $783M in DEI-related funding.
The move delivers a political win for Trump’s broader push to roll back DEI programs across the federal government. The decision overturns rulings by lower courts that had blocked the cuts. In June, U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley of Massachusetts called the administration’s actions "arbitrary and capricious" and said NIH had "failed to provide a reasoned explanation" for cutting grants midstream. The 1st Circuit upheld her injunction in July, setting up Trump’s emergency appeal to the Supreme Court. The Justice Department argued in its July 24 filing that leaving the injunction in place "forces NIH to continue funding projects inconsistent with agency priorities" and warned the order "intrudes on NIH’s core discretion to decide how best to allocate limited research funds." Opponents framed the cuts as ideological. The American Public Health Association warned that "halting these grants would devastate biomedical research across the country, disrupting clinical trials and delaying urgently needed discoveries" and said "the administration has offered no scientific basis for these cancellations — only ideology." Posted by: Skidmark 2025-08-22 |
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