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Robert F. Kennedy Jr cut $122 million in DEI grants at the Department of Health and Human Services.
He worked with DOGE to do it.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is obediently carrying out massive budget cuts to research deemed too woke for the Trump administration.
RFK Jr. gutted nearly $122 million at the Department of Health and Human Services for grants focusing on LGBT topics and diversity, equity, and inclusion, according to a report by the New York Post.
The Trump administration deemed the defunded 195 projects as having too much of a focus on race and sexual orientation. Per the Post, Kennedy began making the sweeping cuts back in March.
Kennedy reportedly worked with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to drain funding from DEI programs.
One of the grants that was cut is $5.5 million to the National Cancer Institute at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to “recruit at least 18 tenure-track faculty from minoritized racial and ethnic groups.”
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.
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.”
Also getting the chop was a $2.4 million grant to the University of Virginia from the National Institute of Mental Health for studying “Neurodevelopmental Biomarkers of Late Diagnosis in Female and Gender Diverse Autism” — part of a larger endowment totaling $12 million announced by UVA in 2022.