A Federal Judge Blocked National Institutes Of Health’s DEI Cuts – Now Trump Admin Wants The Supreme Court To Intervene
The Trump administration is planning to end grants related to DEI efforts, according to The New York Times. In an emergency application, lawyers for the Trump administration asked the justices to allow the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to scrap millions of grants related to DEI initiatives.
Plans to cut grants related to DEI
Some of the administration’s cuts to the NIH were “void and illegal,” according to Judge William G. Young of the Federal District Court of Massachusetts.
The judge has accused Trump of being racially discriminatory and prejudiced against LGBTQ. People are ending several grants that encourage research into topics associated with gender identity and equity in health care.
The Trump administration started cutting NIH grants that directly focused on research on health equity, racial disparities, vaccine hesitancy, and maternal health in minority communities in March.
Trump scrapping DEI effors in the US
President Trump has been on a mission to end DEI efforts in the US since he took office. In January, President Trump revoked a six-decade-old executive order that prohibited workplace discrimination by federal contractors. In the same month, the president also issued an executive order terminating any diversity and inclusion actions in the federal government.
On Wednesday, 23rd July, President Donald Trump banned “woke AI” and AI models from government contracts. The new order states that any artificial intelligence company receiving federal funding must maintain ideologically neutral AI models that are free of “ideological dogmas such as DEI.
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