Posted on 08/29/2025 8:35:36 AM PDT by Angelino97
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services has stopped nearly $122 million in grants to research deemed a poor use of taxpayer funds due to focus on LGBT topics and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), The Post has learned.
The grants, funding 195 different projects, were determined by the Trump administration to focus too narrowly on sexual or racial minority groups — drawing outrage from some holdover officials from the Biden administration and contributing to at least one high-profile resignation this week.
The precise savings are difficult to calculate due to the fact that some awards were partially dispensed and often span multiple years. Most of the grants were scrapped in March in cooperation with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but others were canceled as recently as this month.
Among the biggest grants to be axed was $5.5 million from the National Cancer Institute to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for the “Vanderbilt FIRST” initiative that aims to “recruit at least 18 tenure-track faculty from minoritized [sic] racial and ethnic groups,” according to data reviewed by The Post.
The prestigious Nashville, Tenn., university has an endowment of more than $10 billion — ranked among America’s top 20 — but said the funds were needed to “identify and eliminate organizational barriers that impede full participation, advancement, and thriving of racially diverse faculty in academia.”
Drexel University, a less wealthy but still well-regarded Philadelphia institution, similarly received more than $4.6 million from the National Cancer Institute for “Catalyzing Systemic Change at Drexel University to Support Diverse Faculty in Health Disparities Research.”
The project abstract says the money would be used by Drexel for “mentoring and supporting diverse early-stage faculty dedicated to health disparities research.”
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We as citizens have been spending so much public money laundering it to leftist’s friends and familiey through their little projects.
I voted for this.
RFK,jr. keeps doing the right thing.
Wonderful!
THIS is exactly the sorts of cuts that need to happen. They may appear quite small in relation to the massive shenanigans of the USAID, but these smaller grants are the feeder stream for a LOT of small local and LOUD activists, that keep them making the noise that the leftist need to appear relevant.
good, I was a bit sceptical on RFK Jr but I was wrong. He’s doing a good job
STOP FEEDING THE MONSTER... END THE INSANITY... Thank you RFK Jr...
WE ALL DID
NOWHERE NEAR THE FINAL CLEAN UP, THO
It’s worth going to the article and reading the listing of cuts.
“identify and eliminate organizational barriers that impede full participation, advancement, and thriving of racially diverse faculty in academia.”
May I be the first to say - Horse$hit !
200 homosexual projects?
WOW!
a lot of savings as the WashedUpDC waste and graft and corruption is cleaned up!
This is what I voted for.
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