Trump had sent the National Guard soldiers and federal agents to the city last week. He justified this with a wave of violent crime and explained to temporarily take over the city’s police authority. This is considered an extraordinary use of presidential power powers.
The mayor of Washington, Muriel Bowser, disagreed with Trump’s presentation. Crime in the capital has decreased in the past two years, she said to journalists on Thursday. You expect the 500 additional officials to lead to more arrests. However, this is only a small additional contribution to the work of the urban police. Representatives of the city refer to statistics from the federal and city statistics, according to which the violent crime in Washington has decreased significantly since a high in 2023.
The United States’ Supreme Court temporarily allowed President Donald Trump government to implement planned cuts in research funds for studies on ethnic minorities and LGBT persons on Thursday. The judges gave an application from the Ministry of Justice and thus raised a decision by a subordinate court. This had blocked the deletion of the grants from the national health institutes (NIH) in June, referring to federal laws. However, the majority of the judges of the Supreme Court decided that the lawsuit should have been submitted before the Court of Federal Claims, which specialized in claims for damages against the US government. The actual lawsuit by researchers and 16 US states will continue to be negotiated before a lower court.
The cuts are part of Trump’s action against initiatives to diversity, equality and inclusion (dei) and against the so-called “gender ideology” rejected by the government. Trump signed corresponding orders in January. The NIH then instructed its employees to end the financing for studies that were classified as “not very valuable and not in accordance with the order”. According to the government, grants of $ 783 million are concerned with their priorities.
The NIH is the world’s largest donor for biomedical research. The government in Washington has repeatedly contacted the Supreme Court in order to be able to implement political projects blocked by lower instances. The Supreme Court, in which conservative judges have a majority of six to three, has stood on the side of the government since Trump’s return to the presidency in January in almost all of the cases submitted.
