US EditionSupreme Court Lets Trump Administration Cut $783 Million of Research Funding in Anti-DEI Push
The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling permits $783 million in National Institutes of Health diversity-related grant cuts amid ongoing legal disputes over discrimination claims.
- On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to cut diversity-linked National Institutes of Health grants, lifting a judge's order that blocked the cuts while lower-court litigation continues.
- President Donald Trump's push to reshape federal research funding has targeted diversity, equity and inclusion policies, including cuts tied to $783 million in NIH research funding previously blocked by a judge.
- Plaintiffs including 16 Democratic state attorneys general and public-health advocacy groups argue halting studies on global warming, Alzheimer's disease and cancer midstream disrupts research scientists and risks "incalculable losses" in public health.
- The Justice Department argued funding decisions should not be "subject to judicial second-guessing" and Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged such disputes belong in federal claims court rather than emergency appeals.
- Chief Justice John Roberts joined three liberal justices in dissent, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a lengthy dissent criticizing the emergency appeals handling, while Justice Neil Gorsuch faulted lower-court judges for ignoring prior high-court orders.
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Supreme Court lets Trump slash NIH research funds
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The U.S. President Trump's government has achieved another success before the Supreme Court: in the fight against initiatives on diversity, equality and inclusion, it can initially cut research funds by three-digit millions.
The U.S. Supreme Court, with a conservative majority, has authorized the Trump administration to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in medical research funding linked to initiatives to...
The highest court in the United States lifted the order of a judge who had blocked nearly $800 million in cuts in grants to agencies supervising medical research in the United States.
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