Overview

• Judge William Young declared the administration’s directive to cap and cancel NIH research funding illegal and void under federal law.
• Young said the cuts specifically targeted diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and amounted to racial discrimination and bias against LGBTQ researchers.
• Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified that officials aimed to eliminate DEI funding and redirect resources toward poverty reduction as part of waste-fighting measures.
• The court ordered the restoration of dozens of grants supporting studies on Alzheimer’s disease, HIV prevention and pregnancy health disparities.
• Medical and scientific groups cautioned that the funding cuts threatened critical biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health.