16 state attorneys general sue Trump administration over NIH grant terminations [View all]

Source: ABC News

April 4, 2025, 12:44 PM


Sixteen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday over its cancellation of research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, argues the cancellation of the grants is "unlawful" and the attorneys general "seek relief for the unreasonable and intentional delays currently plaguing the grant-application process."

The defendants named in the suit include the NIH, almost all of the NIH's 27 institutes and centers, NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the Department of Health and Human Services and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The NIH told ABC News it does not comment on pending litigation. The HHS did not immediately reply to ABC News' request for comment.

"Once again, the Trump administration is putting politics before public health and risking lives and livelihoods in the process," New York Attorney General Letitia James, one of plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said in a statement. "Millions of Americans depend on our nation's research institutions for treatments and cures to the diseases that devastate families every day."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/16-state-attorneys-general-sue-trump-administration-nih/story?id=120485445

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Link to NY AG PRESS RELEASE - Attorney General James Sues Trump Administration for Illegally Cutting Funding for Medical Research

Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/court-filings/masssachusetts-et-al-v-robert-f-kennedy-jr-united-states-department-of-health-and-human-services-et-al-complaint-2025.pdf

There have been a couple suits related to the NIH grant cancellations and this one appears to be new, and just filed today.

There was supposedly a nation injunction put in place March 5th for an earlier set of cancels, but this suit might be associated by what was just done last week - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143425251