The work of President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk is saving taxpayers another $350 million, according to a new report.
It’s because the Department of Health and Human Services is canceling hundreds of grants planned by the National institutes of Health for research involving the politicized “diversity, equity and inclusion” ideologies, as well as “gender” agendas.
A report from Fox News noted the projects also focused on “multilevel and multidimensional structural racism,” “gender” therapy in mice and the ever-popular “microaggressions.”
In all, 500 grants were assigned to the dustbin.
“HHS is taking action to terminate more than $350 million in research funding that is not aligned with NIH and HHS priorities,” department spokesman Andrew Nixon. “The terminated research grants are simply wasteful in studying things that do not pertain to American’s health to any significant degree, including DEI and gender ideology. As we begin to Make America Healthy Again, it’s important to prioritize research that directly affects the health of Americans.”
Among the now-dropped plans was one involving $5 million to researchers at Vanderbilt University where a “more racial and ethnic diversity among our scidentific research faculty” was the goal. Grant applicants wanted to hire 18 “tenure-track faculty” that would represent “minoritized racial and ethnic groups.”
Fox explained right after Trump was inaugurated, he told federal agencies, including HHS, to freeze – temporarily – handing out new grants, and when a judge blocked that, the administration rescinded the imstructions and instead began meetings and reviews concerning all that grant money.
Democrats expanded their attacks on Trump’s cost-saving measures when Trump’s pick to head the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, appeared for a confirmation hearing.
They demanded to know if he would fight the president’s cost-savings plans, especially for projects they thought important.
He did confirm he would follow the law, and he wanted to discontinue frivolous projects that offered little help for America’s health.
