YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out." MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling." NEW: Judge Young, a 1985 Reagan appointee, delivered an extended rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown research grants it seems related to DEI or gender ideology. w/ Danny Nguyen politico.com
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