A deal between the federal government and groups that sued the Trump administration over National Institutes of Health research grant proposals consigned to bureaucratic limbo because of anti-DEI policies is already bearing fruit.
The agreement, which was reached Monday, came with a deadline that a subset of grant applications that were covered by the suit be evaluated that day. According to a spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing some of the plaintiffs, 135 of 146 “non-competitive renewal applications” were funded, meaning these multi-year projects could continue. Decisions will be made on an unknown number of additional grants in the coming weeks.