DEI grants under fire: AFL targets NIH-funded “junk science” in $30M purge
By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
America First Legal (AFL) has brought renewed attention to the termination of 18 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants in 2025, sharing a detailed report in a thread posted on X on July 16. The group’s findings highlight a series of projects it characterizes as race-based and ideologically driven—grants funded during the Biden Administration and later canceled under new Trump Administration directives.
https://twitter.com/america1stlegal/status/1945302705427099843?s=61
The AFL thread meticulously documents many of the terminated grants, spotlighting specific examples that have drawn significant scrutiny.
Among them is a $740,000 grant awarded to New York University to assess diversity effects in medical sch...