First on the fox: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) canceled hundreds of scholarships from the National Health Institutes (NIH) – depending on more than $ 350 million – projects related to diversity, equality and inclusion (dei) and gender ideology, according to the department officer.
The cuts included projects of reducing the study of “multi -layered and multidimensional structural racism”, “hormone therapy that confirms gender in mice” and “microagressions”, among others.
There were more than 500 in total research assets Associated with Dei and the progressive gender ideology that the administration interrupted.
“HHS is taking measures to abolish more than $ 350 million in research funding that has not been aligned with priorities of NIH and HHS,” said HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon in a statement. “The abolished research scholarship is simply wasteful in studying things that do not relate to the health of the American to any significant extent, including Dei and gender ideology. As we start Make America again healthy, It is important to give a priority to a study that directly affects the health of Americans. ”
National Health Institutes have announced a reduced consumption of $ 9 billion in response to the new term of Trump administration. (Alamy/Getty Pictures)
One of the reduced grants included nearly $ 1 million to scientists at Maryland-Baltimore University for the research project entitled, “Assessment of Interskyo Multiple and Multiciminal Structural Rasism for the population of English and Spanish in the US.” The project involved the work of creating “intersecting, multi -layered and multidimensional measures of structural racism” to “eliminate health differences and discrimination” for racial minorities.
“There is an urgent need for publicity to collect valid and reliable data on structural racism before being designed for effective interventions to reduce structural racism,” the project description states.
Multiple projects studying Transgender medical treatments There were among those in the mice. One of these scholarships provided close to $ 1 million to Emory University researchers to study how to treat transgender hormones affect the maturation of mice skeletons, called “Microbioom Medical Effects of Roda confirming hormone therapy at mice.” The second project worth around $ 50,000 has worked on understanding “how chromosomal makeup and cross -administration hormone” affect wound healing in mice.
A separate research project that has not used mice has received nearly $ 1 million “to study possible genuine associations with gender identity.”
HHS has interrupted more than 500 grants worth more than $ 350 million for gender ideology and research projects Dei. (Getty Images/Fox News)
The branches focused on employing scientists based on their race or ethnicity also reduced Trump administration. Support worth more than $ 5 million to researchers at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in order to “achieve racial and ethnic diversity among our scientific research faculties,” involved an obligation to hire at least 18 faculties for duration of “minority racial and ethnic groups”.
Shortly after the president Donald Trump It is open, directed the federal agencies, including HHS, to temporarily freeze the issuance of new federal scholarships. The action was to ensure that the financing of each agency is respected with Trump’s new policies and demands, including those that are removed by Dei and progressive gender ideology in the public sector.
The judge then issued an order that temporarily blocked the freezing of the administration agent, and shortly thereafter, Trump’s administration abolished its memorandum that directed the stopping of funds. Shortly afterwards, they continued important meetings and travels associated with the Agency’s audit audit procedure.
In addition to reviewing the financing of grants to ensure that he is aligned with the president’s policies, Trump also conducted a 15% limit on the facilities and administrative costs involved in the research awards.
The scientist shows a viscous Genic DNA Pipetting at the Intramural Center for Sequencing Nih in Rockville, Maryland, April 13, 2023. (Photo Carolyn Van Houten/Washington Post via Getty Images)
Acts of administration targeted on a survey created a widespread reaction. Earlier this month, Trump’s selection as the next director of NIH, Dr. Jay Bhattachary, was imbued with questions of Democrats during a certificate of certificate about whether he would give way to preventing the president to reduce what he considered critically important research projects.
Bhattacharya explicitly would not say that he did not agree with the cuts or that if confirmed, he would step to stop them. Instead, he said he would “follow the law”, at the same time exploring the impact of the reduction and providing any researcher who does the job that improves health results of Americans has the resources needed to perform their work.
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Bhattacharya also exposed what he called a new, decentralized vision for the future Research in nih -u Which he said would be aimed at accepting dissatisfied ideas and transparency, focusing on research topics that have the best chances of directly take advantage of the health results of Americans. Bhattacharya said he wanted to resolve the research portfolio of other “frivolous” efforts, which he says they make little to use health results.
