Vice President JD Vance took a shot at former Vice President Kamala Harris, suggesting her alcohol habits were responsible for her ‘word salads.’ 

Vance’s remarks came as he described the difference between how he and Harris have handled the role as vice president, and he speculated about the relationship dynamic between Harris and former President Joe Biden. 

‘Well, I don’t have four shots of vodka before every meeting,’ Vance said in an interview with radio host and Daily Caller editor Vince Coglianese in an interview that aired Thursday. ‘That’s one way I think that Kamala really tried to bring herself into the role, is these word salads. I think I would need the help of a lot of alcohol to answer a question the way that Kamala Harris answered questions.’ 

Vance then shared his suspicions that Harris and Biden didn’t have the same level of trust he and President Donald Trump share, noting his opinion was based on ‘guesswork’ since he doesn’t speak to either Biden or Harris frequently. 

‘My sense is that there wasn’t a level of trust between Biden and Harris,’ Vance said. ‘She was just less empowered to do her job. Luckily, I’m in a situation where the president trusts me, where if he asks me to do something, he believes it’s going to happen. … I feel empowered in a way that I think a lot of vice presidents haven’t been, but that’s all in the service of accomplishing the president’s vision.’ 

Harris routinely faced scrutiny for comments in which she jumbled words, including when she said, ‘I grew up understanding the children of the community are the children of the community’ in September 2024. 

Harris, who previously served as a senator from California, is now a speaker with CAA Speakers, which represents high-profile celebrities. CAA did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. 

A spokesperson for Vance confirmed the vice president made the remarks on the podcast but did not provide additional comment to Fox News Digital. Coglianese did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

Meanwhile, Vance also poked fun at himself in the interview Thursday. 

Vance, who has become the source of thousands of memes circulating the internet after the heated Oval Office meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February, said he finds the memes entertaining. 

In particular, he said he enjoys one based off Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the television from the 2019 film ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ and another swapping his face with members of the band Van Halen. 

‘I’m a personal fan of Vance Halen, but that’s because I really like the band Van Halen,’ Vance said. ‘So that’s just my personal preferences. I don’t know how it happened or where it came from, but it’s been very, very funny to watch your own face become this meme. It’s made the job a lot more fun, so I encourage people to keep doing it.’ 

Fox News Digital’s Alexander Hall contributed to this report.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said wasteful spending is over as he signed a memo to cancel over $580 million in Department of Defense (DoD) contracts.

‘We’re back with another quick update on our efforts to cut wasteful spending and cut it quickly at the Department of Defense,’ Hegseth announced in a post on X.

‘Today, I’m signing a memo directing the termination of over $580 million in DoD contracts, in grants that do not match the priorities of this president or this department. In other words, they are not a good use of taxpayer dollars.’

Hegseth said that they owe Americans transparency, sharing details on some of the contracts and grants that have been canceled.

‘There’s an HR software effort that was supposed to take a year and cost $36 million, but instead it’s taken eight years and is currently $280 million over budget, not delivering what it was supposed to. So that’s 780% over budget. We’re not doing that anymore,’ Hegseth vowed.

Hegseth added that they uncovered another batch of DoD grants, totaling $360 million worth, that decarbonizing emissions from Navy ships – part of the Obama-Biden Green agenda. 

‘That’s 6 million bucks, $5.2 million on something that would diversify and engage the Navy by engaging underrepresented Bipoc students and scholars. Another $9 million at a university to approach equitable AI and machine learning models. I need lethal machine learning model, not equitable machine learning models,’ Hegseth explained.

On this third point, Hegseth said Thursday’s other cuts included wasteful spending on external consulting services. 

’30 million bucks in contracts with Gartner and McKinsey. That’s IT purchasing unused licenses. So when you add it all up, $580 million in DoD contracts and grants DOGE is helping us cut today,’ Hegseth said.

When added up all together, Hegseth said that over $800 million in wasteful spending has been canceled over the first few weeks, as DoD partners with DOGE ‘to make sure that our warfighters have what they need by cutting the waste, fraud, and abuse.’

‘They’re working hard. We’re working hard with them. We appreciate the work that they’re doing, and we have a lot more coming. So stay tuned,’ Hegseth said. 

‘So, might as well not waste any more time right now, just sign this thing. How about that? So this makes it official. We’re going to keep going for you guys,’ Hegseth said while signing the orders. 

‘Have we ever seen this level of transparency? Amazing, thank you @SecDef,’ Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., commented on Hegseth’s post.

Back in February, Hegseth committed to cooperating with DOGE to cut wasteful spending at the Department of Defense.

‘We will partner with them. It’s long overdue. The Defense Department’s got a huge budget, but it needs to be responsible,’ Hegseth previously told Fox News. 

As of Thursday afternoon, 239 ‘wasteful’ contracts with a ‘ceiling value’ of $1.7 billion have been terminated over a two-day period, DOGE announced. 

Fox News Digital’s Deirdre Heavey and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.

Stepheny Price is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers topics including missing persons, homicides, national crime cases, illegal immigration, and more. Story tips and ideas can be sent to stepheny.price@fox.com

: A top former spokesperson for former President Joe Biden blasted President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress for proposing potential judicial impeachments as the administration encounters court-imposed obstacles in enacting its agenda. 

Former White House spokesperson Andrew Bates now advises a group known as Unlikely Allies, which says it is working to create ‘cross-partisan support for the needs and interests of all Americans.’

‘Radical, corrupt attacks on judges are putting our Constitution and the freedom of every single American in danger from government overreach,’ Bates told Fox News Digital on the group’s behalf. ‘For the first time in history, our president and members of his party in Congress are colluding to impeach any federal judge who stops the most powerful person in the world from breaking the law.

‘The president has also called for making dissent illegal, which would trample the First Amendment and threaten the fundamental right of any American to disagree with his agenda — whether it’s cutting taxes for the rich or raising the prices he falsely promised to lower.’ 

According to the group, Unlikely Allies ‘is made up of everyday citizens, families, communities, and organizations who are committed to solving our toughest problems, together.’

‘Driven by the values that unite us, our goal is to create unified, cross-partisan support for the needs and interests of all Americans. This isn’t about left or right, Republican or Democrat — it’s about American values and holding our government accountable,’ a description of the organization says. 

The White House responded to Bates’ statement, with deputy press secretary Anna Kelly telling Fox News Digital, ‘Biden communications alum Andrew Bates has no credibility after lying to the world about Biden’s cognitive decline. Just like these judges, Bates is a left-wing activist masquerading as a nonpartisan as he works to destroy the separation of powers and subvert the will of the American people.’ 

The dispute comes as federal judges across the country continue to impose restrictions on Trump actions until further review and legal determinations. 

Recently, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg granted an emergency order to temporarily halt the administration’s deportation flights of illegal immigrants.

The judge granted an order to review the 1798 wartime-era Alien Enemies Act being invoked by the administration to immediately deport Venezuelan nationals and alleged members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua.

This only further angered the president, who appeared to call for Boasberg’s impeachment.

‘This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!’ Trump said on Truth Social.

Republicans in general have appeared to scrutinize the ability of federal district judges to make blanket nationwide orders in recent days. 

‘Federal judges aren’t there to replace presidential policy choices,’ Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, wrote on X. ‘Nor is it their job to neuter presidents by delaying presidential decisions.

‘Their job is to resolve disputes about what the law says.’ 

Lee also said he is working on a bill to address the issue. 

In the House, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has a measure that would prevent federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions. Multiple sources told Fox News Digital Trump has shown interest in Issa’s bill. Top White House aides shared as much with senior Capitol Hill staff this week, explaining that ‘the president wants this.’

A federal judge said Thursday that the Trump administration missed a court deadline to disclose details on deportation flights to El Salvador, escalating President Donald Trump’s ongoing legal battle with the judiciary.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said that the government’s lawyers failed to meet the deadline he set for them to submit information about the administration’s deportation flights, which included individuals who were targeted for immediate removal under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, and whether they knowingly defied his court order.

In a blistering order sent Thursday evening, the judge noted that the government ‘again evaded its obligations’ to submit information about the flights, even after he offered the opportunity for them to do so under seal. The filing they did submit was hours late and failed to answer his questions.

Instead, he said, the court was sent a six-paragraph declaration from a regional ICE office director in Harlingen, Texas, which notified the court that Cabinet secretaries are ‘actively considering whether to invoke the state secrets [act] privileges over the other facts requested by the Court’s order.’

‘This,’ he said, ‘is woefully insufficient.’

Boasberg on Saturday had granted an emergency restraining order blocking the Trump administration from using the 1798 law to deport Venezuelan nationals, including alleged members of the gang Tren de Aragua, for a period of 14 days. He also ordered any flights in the air to return to U.S. soil immediately.

Hours later, however, a plane carrying hundreds of U.S. migrants, including Venezuelan nationals removed under the law in question, arrived in El Salvador. 

Boasberg immediately ordered the government to submit more information to the court, as part of a ‘fact-finding hearing’ to determine whether the Trump administration knowingly defied his order, and how many individuals were deported.

After the government repeatedly failed to comply, citing national security issues, he told them they could do so under seal by noon Thursday. 

Boasberg had asked government lawyers to submit information on how many planes departed the U.S. on Saturday carrying people deported ‘solely on the basis’ of that proclamation, how many individuals were on each plane, where the planes landed, what time each plane took off from the U.S. and from where.

‘To begin, the Government cannot proffer a regional ICE official to attest to Cabinet-level discussions of the state-secrets privilege; indeed, his declaration on that point, not surprisingly, is based solely on his unsubstantiated ‘understand[ing],” he said.

Boasberg then ordered the Trump administration to submit a brief by March 25 explaining why it did not violate his order by failing to return the individuals in question on the two earliest planes that arrived from El Salvador to the U.S. on March 15.

‘By March 21, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., Defendants shall submit a sworn declaration by a person with direct involvement in the Cabinet-level discussions regarding invocation of the state-secrets privilege,’ he added.  

Boasberg had previously warned the Trump administration of consequences if it were to violate his order. 

Still, at least one plane with deported migrants touched down later that evening in El Salvador. ‘Oopsie, too late,’ Salvador President Nayib Bukele said in a post on X. 

In the days since, government lawyers have refused to share information in court about the deportation flights, and whether the plane (or planes) of migrants knowingly departed U.S. soil after the judge ordered them not to do so, citing national security protections. 

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo sent a letter to President Donald Trump offering a minerals deal in exchange for a security agreement with the U.S. that would remove violent rebels from the war-torn nation. 

‘Your election has ushered in the golden age for America,’ President Félix Tshisekedi wrote in February to Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. ‘Our partnership would provide the U.S. with a strategic advantage by securing critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium, copper and tantalum from the Democratic Republic of Congo.’

The Congo has over $20 trillion worth of minerals available, according to the Congo-based Panzi Foundation, including gold and copper. The African country is also the world’s largest producer of cobalt, which is essential for defense and aerospace applications, and a main component in the batteries of many electric vehicles and cellphones.

Tshisekedi seeks to strike a ‘formal security pact’ so Congo’s army can defeat a Rwandan-backed rebel group called M23 in exchange for a minerals deal, the Wall Street Journal reported. 

The letter did not provide details on what a potential security pact would look like or operate. 

Congo ‘is interested in partnering with the Trump administration to end the conflict and stop the flow of blood minerals via Rwanda,’ a Tshisekedi spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal. 

‘It is in both our interests that American companies – like Apple and Tesla – buy minerals direct from source in the DRC and unlock the engine of our mineral wealth for the benefit of all the world,’ she added. 

Congo and Rwanda are neighboring nations and have been involved in conflict for decades, including the First Congo War from 1996 to 1997, the Second Congo War between 1998 and 2003, and the most recent ongoing conflict that began in 2022. The current conflicts are rooted in gaining access to resources, such as minerals, and claims M23 will protect ethnic minorities from the Congolese government. 

The rebels seized Goma – the country’s largest city of the North Kivu province – in January as fighting between the Rwanda-backed rebels and government intensified, which included the deaths of 13 U.N. peacekeepers and foreign soldiers. 

Tshisekedi joined Fox News’ Bret Baier Wednesday to discuss the potential minerals deal with the U.S., explaining he wants to build jobs in his nation through the extraction of the minerals, while simultaneously building a partnership with the U.S. to ensure lasting peace in the nation. 

‘We want to extract these minerals but also process them, as this would create a lot of jobs,’ Tshisekedi told Baier. ‘And we want a partnership that will provide lasting peace and stability for our countries, which we need.’ 

China has a large presence in Congo, and it runs the country’s cobalt mine, Fox Digital previously reported. Tshisekedi brushed off concerns that China’s presence could complicate any potential deal with the U.S. during his interview with Baier. 

‘Nature abhors a vacuum, as the saying goes,’ he told Baier. ‘It’s not that China is waxing in Africa. It’s more that America is waning in Africa… and we would be very happy to have our American friends here, who used to be more present than China in the ‘70s and ’80s.’ 

Tshisekedi is also in negotiations with Erik Prince, the founder of private military firm formerly known as Blackwater and a Trump ally, to potentially aid the Congo’s government amid the war, the Wall Street Journal reported. 

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on the deal offer, but did not immediately receive a reply. 

The offer comes after the Trump administration worked to strike a minerals deal with Ukraine, which is rich in resources such as lithium and copper, in an effort to recoup the cost of aid sent to Ukraine amid its war with Russia. 

The deal, however, was put on ice after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s tense Oval Office meeting with Trump and Vice President JD Vance in February. 

Fox News Digital’s Paul Tilsley and Diana Stancy contributed to this report. 

House GOP leaders have little appetite to launch a full-scale impeachment process against judges who have been blocking President Donald Trump’s agenda, sources said Thursday.

Three people – two senior House GOP aides and one source familiar with leadership’s discussions – told Fox News Digital that House leadership does not see impeachment as the most effective way to hold accountable those they view as ‘activist’ judges.

Republican leaders are still looking into it, however, after Trump himself called for the impeachment of U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg over the weekend. Boasberg issued an emergency 14-day injunction on the Trump administration’s deportation of suspected Tren De Aragua gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.

But impeachment would largely be a symbolic gesture, even if such a move passed the House.

‘I don’t think we know if we have the votes, and it’s another intense whipping process for something that won’t move at all in the Senate,’ one senior House GOP aide said. ‘I think our focus is to do something that is easier to get votes for and could actually get all the Republicans in the Senate.’

A second senior House GOP aide was more blunt with Fox News Digital: ‘It’s likelier that President Trump will acquire Canada as our 51st state than the U.S. House of Representatives impeaching federal judges.’

‘This is an impossible task,’ the second senior aide said.

A third source familiar with House GOP leadership discussions said, ‘The impeachment route isn’t anyone’s favorite on this.’

It’s being pushed by a faction of conservatives primarily in the House Freedom Caucus, however – and they appear buoyed by Trump’s support for impeaching Boasberg.

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, introduced a resolution to impeach Boasberg for abuse of power. 

Gill told Fox News Digital earlier this week that Boasberg was a ‘rogue’ judge who was ‘overstepping’ his authority.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who previously told Fox News Digital that all options were on the table, suggested in multiple media interviews this week that the committee could hold a hearing on the matter.

Reps. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., Eli Crane, R-Ariz., and Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., are pushing resolutions to impeach other federal judges who blocked Trump policies as well.

However, with just 53 Republican senators, any impeachment resolution would need the help of Democrats to reach the two-thirds threshold required for removal after a Senate trial – which is highly unlikely to happen. 

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution, said all options should be available to Republicans. 

‘We ought to look at [impeachment], we ought to look at jurisdiction-stripping, we ought to look at every option that needs to be addressed about judges that are actively taking steps to try to undermine the presidency,’ Roy told Fox News Digital in a brief interview on Thursday.

He also pointed out that an impeachment by the House is in itself a punishment, although symbolic – though Roy noted he was not ‘for or against’ any one specific path right now.

It’s worth noting that former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas remains the second-ever Cabinet secretary impeached, a permanent note on his legacy even though the then-Democrat-controlled Senate quickly dismissed a trial.

But getting the Mayorkas impeachment resolution passed through the House was a messy political affair, when the GOP was dealing with a similarly slim margin. It took two House-wide votes to pass that measure, with Republicans falling one vote short on the first attempt and then narrowly passing the resolution with three GOP defections on the second.

GOP leaders have had more success with critical votes this year, however, with Trump in the White House pressing holdouts on key legislation.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is not ruling anything out right now, at least publicly. A spokesperson for Johnson told Fox News Digital that he would look at all options available to take on ‘activist judges.’

‘Activist judges with political agendas pose a significant threat to the rule of law, equal justice, and the separation of powers. The speaker looks forward to working with the Judiciary Committee as they review all available options under the Constitution to address this urgent matter,’ the spokesperson said.

Two other sources told Fox News Digital that another option Trump showed support for was a bill by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., to block federal district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions.

: A top former spokesperson for former President Joe Biden is blasting President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress for proposing potential judicial impeachments, as the administration hits an array of court-imposed obstacles in implementing its agenda. 

Former White House spokesperson Andrew Bates now advises a group known as Unlikely Allies, which says it is working to create ‘cross-partisan support for the needs and interests of all Americans.’

‘Radical, corrupt attacks on judges are putting our Constitution and the freedom of every single American in danger from government overreach,’ Bates told Fox News Digital on the group’s behalf. ‘For the first time in history, our president and members of his party in Congress are colluding to impeach any federal judge who stops the most powerful person in the world from breaking the law.’

‘The President has also called for making dissent illegal, which would trample the 1st Amendment and threaten the fundamental right of any American to disagree with his agenda — whether it’s cutting taxes for the rich or raising the prices he falsely promised to lower,’ he continued. 

According to the group, Unlikely Allies ‘is made up of everyday citizens, families, communities, and organizations who are committed to solving our toughest problems, together.’

‘Driven by the values that unite us, our goal is to create unified, cross-partisan support for the needs and interests of all Americans. This isn’t about left or right, Republican or Democrat — it’s about American values and holding our government accountable,’ a description of the organization read. 

The White House responded to Bates’ statement, with Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly telling Fox News Digital, ‘Biden communications alum Andrew Bates has no credibility after lying to the world about Biden’s cognitive decline. Just like these judges, Bates is a left-wing activist masquerading as a nonpartisan as he works to destroy the separation of powers and subvert the will of the American people.’ 

The dispute comes as federal judges across the country continue to impose restrictions on Trump actions until further review and legal determinations. 

Recently, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg granted an emergency order to temporarily halt the administration’s deportation flights of illegal immigrants.

The judge granted the order to review the 1798 wartime-era Alien Enemies Act being invoked by the administration in order to immediately deport Venezuelan nationals and alleged members of the violent gang Tren de Aragua.

This only further angered the president, who appeared to call for Boasberg’s impeachment. ‘This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!’ he said on Truth Social.

Republicans in general have appeared to scrutinize the ability of federal district judges to make blanket nationwide orders in recent days. 

‘Federal judges aren’t there to replace presidential policy choices,’ wrote Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on X. ‘Nor is it their job to neuter presidents by delaying presidential decisions.’ 

‘Their job is to resolve disputes about what the law says,’ he continued. 

Lee also said he is working on a bill to address the issue. 

In the House, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has a measure that would prevent federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions. Multiple sources told Fox News Digital that Trump himself has shown interest in Issa’s bill. Top White House aides shared as much with senior Capitol Hill staff this week, explaining that ‘the president wants this.’

President Donald Trump praised his youngest son, Barron Trump, as a ‘smart guy’ with an affinity for technology ahead of Barron’s 19th birthday on Thursday. 

The president said his teen son has a knack for technology when asked whether Barron had more of a talent for business or politics during an exclusive interview on ‘The Ingraham Angle’ this week.

‘Maybe technology,’ Trump said. ‘He can look at a computer. I try I turn it off. As I turn it off I turn off his laptop. I said, oh good. And I go back. Five minutes later, he’s got his laptop. I say, how did you do that? None of your business, dad. No. He’s got an unbelievable aptitude in technology.’

‘Barron’s a very smart guy,’ the president said.

Barron Trump is a first-year student at New York University (NYU) in the Stern School of Business.

During the inaugural parade at Capital One Arena, Barron Trump was acknowledged by his father for his role in the 2024 presidential election results — as he reportedly guided the president on how to target the youth vote through podcasts hosted by Joe Rogan, Theo Von and others.

The 2024 presidential race was the first election in which Barron Trump was eligible to vote and his mother, First lady Melania Trump, shared a photo of her son on Election Day while he was casting his ballot at the voting booth.

Trump went on to praise all his other four children – Eric, Donald Jr., Tiffany and Ivanka – during the interview, telling Ingraham that they’re ‘very smart’ and were ‘always good students.’

‘I’m lucky,’ the president said. ‘Look, you have to be a little bit lucky, too.

Fox News Digital’s Ashley J. DiMella contributed to this report.

As part of the Trump administration’s efforts to peel back Biden-era diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) requirements, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) rescinded the agency’s ‘Scientific Integrity Policy’ implemented under President Joe Biden.

A ‘Final Scientific Integrity Policy’ was unveiled by the Biden administration during the last few weeks of its term. The policy posited that DEI was an ‘integral’ part of ‘the entire scientific process,’ and pushed NIH’s chief scientist and top scientific integrity official to ‘promote agency efforts regarding diversity, equity and inclusion.’ It also instituted agency-wide policy directives ordering supervisors at the NIH to ‘support’ scientists and researchers who are ‘asexual’ or ‘intersex,’ while imploring NIH leadership to ‘confer with relevant offices’ when additional DEI expertise is needed.  

In addition to the amended scientific integrity policy, the Biden administration also took other steps to infuse DEI into the scientific process throughout its term. This included compelling scientists seeking to work with the NIH to submit statements expressing their commitment to DEI, including when seeking certain grant funding for research projects.

‘The Biden administration weaponized NIH’s scientific integrity policy to inject harmful DEI and gender ideology into research,’ said Health and Human Services Department spokesperson, Andrew Nixon. ‘Rescinding this [scientific integrity] policy will allow NIH to restore science to its golden standard and protect the integrity of science.’      

According to an HHS source, during the Biden administration, a member of NIH’s DEI office was placed on every search committee for scientists and leadership. The source also noted that under Biden, scientists who submitted work to the NIH’s ‘Board of Scientific Counselors,’ which oversees agency research, were also required to include a statement pledging their commitment to DEI. 

The Biden administration also funded grants related to DEI, such as one for roughly $165,000 that was focused on ‘queering the curriculum’ for family medicine doctors to guide them in their treatment of transgender patients. A similar project sought to use taxpayer funds from NIH to instruct nurses on the standards of care from the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH). 

WPATH’s standards of care for transgender patients, which support the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender-reassignment surgery for minors, have been rebuked globally. One controversial part of WPATH’s guidelines is the inclusion of ‘enuch’ as a valid gender-identity. Several European countries, such as the U.K., Sweden and Finland, have taken steps to steer clear of the treatment modalities suggested by WPATH.

Under Biden, the NIH also brought DEI activist Ibram Kendi to speak with more than 1,200 staff members about ‘anti-racism.’ In a recap of the 2022 speech, the NIH pointed out how Kendi ‘states unequivocally’ that ‘policies are either racist or antiracist.’

The Trump administration’s move to rescind the Biden-era scientific integrity policy follows other actions taken to extinguish DEI programs from the public and private sectors, calling such initiatives a civil rights violation.

In addition to slashing DEI programs at the NIH, Trump has also moved to slim down its workforce. Shortly after he took office, the president implemented a funding cap for facilities and administrative fees associated with NIH research to help clear room for additional projects.