The judge calls for certain reductions in illegal NIH grants, accusing the government of discrimination

A federal judge declared the decision of the Trump administration of Nix certain subsidies of the National Institutes of Health as illegal, describing the cuts as discriminatory during the remarks on Monday, according to reports.

“I hesitate to draw this conclusion – but I have an unfailing obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination and discrimination against the American LGBTQ community,” said judge William Young, according to Politico. “That’s what it is. I would be blind not to call it. My duty is to call it.”

Young, who sits at the Massaguetts District District Court, was appointed by Ronald Reagan, president of the time in 1985, according to the Court’s website.

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American district judge William Young (American district court for the Massachusetts / Handout district via Reuters)

“Any discrimination of our government is so wrong that it forces the court to enjoin it and at an appropriate time, I will do it,” said the judge Reuters.

HHS communications director Andrew Nixon noted in a statement that the ministry “explores all legal options, including the filing of a call and move to suspend the order”.

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

“HHS respects its decision to put an end to the financing of research which prioritized ideological agendas on scientific rigor and significant results for the American people,” Nixon said in the press release that the ministry provided to Fox News Digital.

“Under the direction of secretary Kennedy and the Trump administration, HHS has committed to guarantee that taxpayers’ dollars support programs rooted in practices based on golden standards and sciences – not motivated by Dei mandates or gender ideology,” said Nixon.

The White House spokesman Kush Desai accused the judge of disseminating his own opinion.

“It is appalling that a federal judge uses legal proceedings to express his opinions and political preferences. How will a judge make a impartial decision when he explicitly declared his biased opinion that justice by the administration ceases from the administration during a judge Racist and Anti-LGBTQ?

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President Donald Trump flanked HHS dry. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the director of NIH Jayanta Bhattacharya in May 2025 (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images)

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The assistant press secretary of the White House said: “Dei is based on the premise that an individual’s skills and capacities are linked to his racial origin, and the Americans rejected in a resounding way this defective and racist logic.”

“The Trump administration is committed to restoring the science stallion of science, and it starts with the recognition of the biological reality of male and female sex. The NIH focuses on the creation of America in healthy by realizing our research expenses to approach our chronic crisis on the crisis, and not to validate ideological activism,” he noted.