Reagan-nominated federal judge accuses Trump admin of 'discrimination' with cuts to NIH diversity grants

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A national justice declared the Trump administration's determination to nix immoderate National Institutes of Health grants arsenic illegal, describing the cuts arsenic discriminatory during remarks connected Monday, according to reports.

"I americium hesitant to gully this decision — but I person an unflinching work to gully it — that this represents radical favoritism and favoritism against America’s LGBTQ community," Judge William Young said, according to Politico. "That’s what this is. I would beryllium unsighted not to telephone it out. My work is to telephone it out."

Young, who serves successful the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, was nominated by then-President Ronald Reagan successful 1985, according to the court's website.  

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U.S. District Judge William Young

U.S. District Judge William Young  (U.S. District Court For The District Of Massachusetts/Handout via REUTERS)

"Any favoritism by our authorities is truthful incorrect that it requires the tribunal to enjoin it and astatine an due time, I'm going to bash it," the justice said, according to Reuters.

HHS Communications Director Andrew Nixon noted successful a connection that the section "is exploring each ineligible options, including filing an entreaty and moving to enactment the order."

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President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump connected June 15, 2025. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

"HHS stands by its determination to extremity backing for probe that prioritized ideological agendas implicit technological rigor and meaningful outcomes for the American people," Nixon declared successful the connection the section provided to Fox News Digital. 

"Under the enactment of Secretary Kennedy and the Trump administration, HHS is committed to ensuring that payer dollars enactment programs rooted successful evidence-based practices and golden modular subject – not driven by divisive DEI mandates oregon sex ideology," Nixon said.

White House Spokesman Kush Desai accused the justice of airing his ain view.

"It is appalling that a national justice would usage tribunal proceedings to explicit his governmental views and preferences. How is simply a justice going to present an impartial determination erstwhile helium explicitly stated his biased sentiment that the Administration’s retraction of amerciable DEI backing is racist and anti-LGBTQ? Justice ceases to beryllium administered erstwhile a justice intelligibly rules connected the ground of his governmental ideologies," Desai declared successful a connection helium provided to Fox News Digital.

WE GOT RID OF ALL THE BEAGLE EXPERIMENTS ON THE NIH CAMPUS, SAYS DR. JAY BHATTACHARYA

President Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Jayanta Bhattacharya

President Donald Trump flanked by HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya successful May 2025 (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

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The White House lawman property caput asserted, "DEI is based connected the premise that an individual’s competence and abilities are tied to his oregon her radical background, and Americans person resoundingly rejected this flawed and racist logic."

"The Trump medication is committed to restoring the Gold Standard of Science, and that starts with recognizing the biologic world of the antheral and pistillate sexes. The NIH is focusing connected Making America Healthy Again by realigning our probe spending to code our chronic illness situation instead, not to validate ideological activism," helium noted.

Alex Nitzberg is simply a writer for Fox News Digital.

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