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Attorney General Kris Mayes joined other Democratic attorneys general filing two more lawsuits against the Trump administration on Friday. One of the lawsuits challenged the pausing of controversial grants issued by the National Institute of Health (NIH). The second contested the dismantling of three agencies that assist unions, promote minority-owned businesses, and give money to libraries for Drag Queen Story Hour for children. Mayes, who has developed a reputation for aggressively going after Republicans, has filed 13 previous lawsuits with other attorneys general against the Trump administration this year.

The 21 attorneys general argued in the lawsuits that the Trump administration was interfering with Congress’s authority. However, those agencies are under the executive branch, not Congress.

The NIH was issuing grants for medical experiments such as castrating male rats and injecting them with estrogen, removing female rats’ ovaries and injecting them with testosterone, and then overdosing them with GHB to “evaluate the potential for altered toxicity/overdose risk in transgender men and women.”

Other NIH grants focused on “health equity” research, such as studying chlamydia in black youth. The Trump administration said it was discontinuing the grants since “so-called diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) studies are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race.”

The January 27 memorandum issued from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget stated, “The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.” Although a federal judge blocked the pause, and the memo was rescinded, directives from Health and Human Services and DOGE in March enforced topic-specific grant cuts.

Representative Eli Crane (R-AZ-02) posted on X about the transgender experiments on animals, “Just when you thought you knew everything about Anthony Fauci…

He also authorized more than $200 million of YOUR money for transgender animal studies.”

Just when you thought you knew everything about Anthony Fauci…

He also authorized more than $200 million of YOUR money for transgender animal studies.

From today’s @GOPoversight hearing… pic.twitter.com/SImpc2DY30

— Rep. Eli Crane (@RepEliCrane) February 6, 2025

NIH awarded $3.6 billion to grantees in Arizona from 2008 until this month. Grants went almost exclusively to the state’s universities and several hospitals. One of the biggest ones, for $37,663,582, went to Northern Arizona University for “Minority Health and Health Disparities Research.” Another huge grant for $23,294,003 went to the University of Arizona for “Environmental Health.” Part of the grant description stated, “Conducting environmental public health research, including in areas of environmental justice and health disparities… to foster and encourage participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in technological innovation.” The vast majority of the grants were for aging research.

Mayes and other attorneys general previously sued the Trump administration on February 10 over cutting “indirect cost” reimbursements for NIH grants at research institutions. A U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, issued an injunction blocking the cuts.

The other lawsuit challenged the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS). Staff at those agencies have been placed on leave, gutting the agencies down to barely more than a handful of employees, and their grants were halted. The IMLS funds Drag Queen Story Hour and left-wing agendas, the MBDA promotes minority-owned businesses, and the FMCS provides assistance to unions.

Trump issued an executive order in March titled “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” which eliminated seven agencies as “unnecessary.” It said they are to “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” The other agencies he eliminated were the United States Agency for Global Media, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution,  the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, and the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. The Democratic attorneys general didn’t sue over the elimination of the other four agencies.

A Trump official told Politico, “This restructure is a necessary step to fulfill that order and ensure hard-earned tax dollars are not diverted to discriminatory DEI initiatives or divisive, anti-American programming in our cultural institutions.”

The American Library Association, which receives millions of dollars of taxpayer funds, promotes Drag Queen Story Hour for children while preventing story hours by a Christian book publisher, then-Senator Marco Rubio, who is now the Secretary of State, said in July 2023.

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Rachel Alexander is a reporter at The Arizona Sun Times and The Star News Network. Follow Rachel on Twitter / X. Email tips to rachel.r.alexander@gmail.com.
Photo “AG Kris Mayes” by AG Kris Mayes.

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