Trump illegally cut NIH grants to minority groups
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In a ruling issued Monday, the judge called the government’s directives “arbitrary and capricious” and ordered funding for some of the NIH grants, including many profiled by ProPublica in recent months,
The National Institutes of Health must restore hundreds of recently canceled research grants focused on race, gender and sexual orientation, a federal judge ordered June 16. The federal government announced in February it would terminate NIH grants related to diversity,
The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.
A federal judge ruled directives from the Trump administration that led to the cancellations of research grants from the NIH were "void" and "illegal."
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is implementing a hiring freeze and pausing annual pay increases due to the uncertainty of funding sources, the school confirmed.