WASHINGTON — 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