{"id":16166,"date":"2025-04-08T05:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T05:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16166"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:04:02","slug":"attorney-general-kris-mayes-sues-new-trump-administration-two-more-times-over-doge-cuts-to-the-federal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16166","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Kris Mayes Sues New Trump Administration Two More Times, over DOGE Cuts to the Federal Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/08\/attorney-general-kris-mayes-sues-new-trump-administration-two-more-times-over-doge-cuts-to-the-federal-government-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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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<\/a> the pausing<\/a> of controversial grants issued by the National Institute of Health (NIH). The second contested<\/a> the dismantling<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

The 21 attorneys general argued in the lawsuits that the Trump administration was interfering with Congress\u2019s authority. However, those agencies are under the executive branch, not Congress.<\/p>\n

The NIH was issuing grants for medical experiments<\/a> such as castrating male rats and injecting them with estrogen, removing female rats\u2019 ovaries and injecting them with testosterone, and then overdosing them with GHB to \u201cevaluate the potential for altered toxicity\/overdose risk in transgender men and women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other NIH grants focused on \u201chealth equity\u201d research, such as studying chlamydia in black youth. The Trump administration said<\/a> it was discontinuing the grants since \u201cso-called diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) studies are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race.\u201d<\/p>\n

The January 27 memorandum<\/a> issued from the White House\u2019s Office of Management and Budget stated, \u201cThe 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.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Representative Eli Crane (R-AZ-02) posted<\/a> on X about the transgender experiments on animals, \u201cJust when you thought you knew everything about Anthony Fauci\u2026<\/p>\n

He also authorized more than $200 million of YOUR money for transgender animal studies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Just when you thought you knew everything about Anthony Fauci\u2026<\/p>\n

He also authorized more than $200 million of YOUR money for transgender animal studies.<\/p>\n

From today\u2019s @GOPoversight<\/a> hearing\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/SImpc2DY30<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rep. Eli Crane (@RepEliCrane) February 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

NIH awarded<\/a> $3.6 billion to grantees in Arizona from 2008 until this month. Grants went almost exclusively to the state\u2019s universities and several hospitals. One of the biggest ones, for $37,663,582<\/a>, went to Northern Arizona University for \u201cMinority Health and Health Disparities Research.\u201d Another huge grant for $23,294,003<\/a> went to the University of Arizona for \u201cEnvironmental Health.\u201d Part of the grant description stated, \u201cConducting environmental public health research, including in areas of environmental justice and health disparities\u2026 to foster and encourage participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and women-owned small business concerns in technological innovation.\u201d The vast majority of the grants were for aging research.<\/p>\n

Mayes and other attorneys general previously sued the Trump administration on February 10 over cutting \u201cindirect cost\u201d reimbursements for NIH grants at research institutions. A U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, issued<\/a> an injunction blocking the cuts.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

Trump issued an executive order<\/a> in March titled \u201cContinuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,\u201d which eliminated seven agencies as \u201cunnecessary.\u201d It said they are to \u201cbe eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.\u201d The other agencies he eliminated were the United States Agency for Global Media, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution,\u00a0 the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, and the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. The Democratic attorneys general didn\u2019t sue over the elimination of the other four agencies.<\/p>\n

A Trump official told<\/a> Politico<\/em>, \u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/a> in July 2023.<\/p>\n

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Rachel Alexander is a reporter at\u00a0The<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Arizona Sun Times<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0The Star News Network<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em>Follow Rachel on\u00a0<\/em>Twitter \/ X<\/em><\/a>. Email tips to\u00a0<\/em>rachel.r.alexander@gmail.com<\/em><\/a>.
\nPhoto \u201cAG Kris Mayes\u201d by AG Kris Mayes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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