The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, has pulled over $330 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants that were funding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and gender-related research in California, according to information obtained by Fox News Digital.

“HHS terminated more than $330 million in wasteful research funding to organizations in California that is not aligned with NIH and HHS priorities,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said Thursday in a statement to Fox News Digital.

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He explained the reasoning behind the decision, saying, “The terminated research grants are simply wasteful in studying things that do not pertain to American’s health to any significant degree, including DEI and gender ideology. As we begin to Make America Healthy Again, it’s important to prioritize research that directly affects the health of Americans.”

A review of the canceled grants showed they were all focused on DEI or gender issues, and most were awarded to schools in the California public university system, like the University of California, San Francisco and UCLA. Some private universities and research institutes in the state also lost funding.

One of the canceled projects was a $5.1 million grant given to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research for a study called “Harnessing the power of text messaging to reduce HIV incidence in adolescent males across the United States.”

Another cut was a $3.6 million grant to Stanford University titled “Sex hormone effects on neurodevelopment: Controlled puberty in transgender adolescents.”

A different $1.3 million grant awarded to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research for a program called “#TranscendentHealth – Adapting an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys” was also eliminated.

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Other projects that lost funding included a $2.5 million University of California, San Francisco grant on “Structural Racism and Discrimination in Older Men’s Health Inequities” and a UCLA study called “Buddhism and HIV Stigma in Thailand: An Intervention Study,” which had received $822,539.

In total, HHS scrapped 61 NIH research grants focused on gender and DEI in California.

The move follows President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate DEI programs from the federal government. On his first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order aimed at “ending radical and wasteful government DEI programs” and reinstating a merit-based system, effectively removing DEI policies from federal agencies.