Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has joined a multistate lawsuit attempting to stop the Trump administration’s cuts in grants for public health research.
The suit claims there have been unlawful delays to National Institutes of Health grants.
NIH grant applications generally go through a two stage process by different review boards.
Board meetings have been halted to review those grants. Mayes says future meetings have been delayed.
Furthermore, the coalition claims grants that have already been awarded have been illegally terminated due to political differences from the presidential administration.
The lawsuit says those delays and cuts are unlawful because the institute is failing to fulfill statutory requirements and that the Executive branch can’t make unilateral grant decisions.
The suit was filed in a Massachusetts federal court.
