The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with $783 million in National Institutes of Health research funding cuts tied to efforts to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The court acted in a 5-4 decision that lifted a lower judge's order blocking those cuts. Chief Justice John Roberts and the court's three liberal justices would have maintained the block. The high court separately kept an anti-DEI directive from being applied to future funding. Plaintiffs called the ruling a significant setback for public health, and the lawsuit covers part of roughly $12 billion in cut NIH projects. The Justice Department argued funding choices should not face judicial second-guessing, and five conservative justices agreed that related challenges should proceed under different court rules, with Justice Neil Gorsuch criticizing lower-court interventions.
The Trump administration can slash hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the Supreme Court decided Thursday.The split court lifted a judge's order blocking $783 million worth of cuts made by the National Institutes of Health to align with Republican President Donald Trump's priorities.The court split 5-4 on the decision.
The high court did keep the Trump administration's anti-DEI directive blocked for future funding with a key vote from Justice Amy Coney Barrett, however.The decision marks the latest Supreme Court win for Trump and allows the administration to forge ahead with canceling hundreds of grants while the lawsuit continues to unfold. The plaintiffs say the decision is a "significant setback for public health," but keeping the directive blocked means the administration can't use it to cut more studies.
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