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From the Daily Caller: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to fund more than a billion dollars in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, even after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to eliminate them.
While other agencies have moved to eliminate the “illegal and immoral programs” targeted in Trump’s day-one executive order, NIH is still funding over $1.3 billion in active grants that include DEI components — from race-based hiring schemes to “anti-racist” training initiatives and diversity-first faculty pipelines. At least $441 million of those grants explicitly cite DEI in their project descriptions, according to NIH data compiled by watchdog group Do No Harm.
“The NIH spends billions and billions of dollars, and those are taxpayer dollars,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, the group’s medical director, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “So we really need to be sensitive to what those dollars are being used for, and we need to be good stewards of those dollars.”
Among the still-active grants is a $28 million 2022 award to Mount Sinai — the largest hospital network in New York City — which pledges to embed “an anti-racist mindset” and “justice, equity, diversity [and] inclusion,” or JEDI, into every layer of its medical research infrastructure until it expires in 2028. A $10 million grant to the University of Michigan from 2023 similarly promises to “expand the diversity of voices” in research and train “diverse types” of clinicians across the state until 2027.
Another $40 million artificial intelligence initiative from 2024 under the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is tasked with applying AI to biomedical data in order to address “sex-related disparities in research,” part of a broader NIH effort to increase women’s representation in machine learning and genomics. The program is scheduled to continue until 2029.
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This is deeply wrong!
A judge just blocked dropping the overhead charged on NIH grants from the outrageous 60% to a far more reasonable 15%.
This judge is FORCING the CORRUPTION to CONTINUE.
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