Rubio accuses NIH of pushing Bidens woke rhetoric on taxpayer-funded scientific research [Video]

FIRST ON FOX: Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is calling out the NIH for “prioritizing” woke initiatives, such as promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and gender surgeries, demanding answers on how funds at the U.S.’s primary health research agency are allocated.

“Instead of allocating critical funding towards important research efforts like Cancer Moonshot or the BRAIN Initiative, the NIH is using its $47.5 billion budget to fund initiatives and put forward messaging that caters to President Biden’s progressive base. These actions call into question the institutional integrity of the agency,” Rubio wrote in a letter, which was exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, to NIH acting Director Lawrence Tabak on Thursday. 

Rubio noted in his letter that the NIH has led the nation on health research through its “greatest health challenges,” citing the agency’s development of an HIV vaccine last year and a new treatment option for people with type 1 diabetes. The Florida Republican told …