“Have we no shame?”: Trump’s NIH grant cuts appallingly illegal, judge rules
Trump ordered to restore funding for minority, LGBTQ+ health research.
The Trump administration has locked horns with a federal judge who ruled on Monday that more than $1 billion in DEI-fueled cuts to federal health research clearly discriminated against racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people.
In what The New York Times dubbed a “damning assessment” of Trump’s motives, Judge Williams G. Young ruled from the bench that the cuts were “void and illegal,” saying it was his “duty” to immediately order funding restored.
“I would be blind not to call it out,” Young said, declaring that in 40 years, he has “never seen government racial discrimination like this. This represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community,” he said. “That’s what this is.”
