Minnesota yanks race-based grant after DOJ initiated Civil Rights review, DOJ reveals

Minnesota's Department of Health (MDH) voluntarily suspended a assistance programme that was specifically based connected contention aft the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated a Civil Rights Act compliance review, the DOJ said successful a Tuesday announcement.

A 2023 summary of the Capacity Strengthening Grant from the 3rd enactment Grant Portal described it arsenic being designed "To enactment and fortify the capableness of metro and agrarian community-based organizations and faith-based organizations serving radical of color, American Indians, LGBTQIA+, and radical surviving with disabilities."

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The strict race-based language, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division explained, was a usurpation of the Civil Rights Act.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon arrives for a quality league astatine the Justice Department connected September 29, 2025, successful Washington, D.C (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"Recipients of national dollars cannot determine who benefits from those funds connected the ground of race, color, oregon nationalist origin," Dhillon said successful a DOJ statement. "The Department appreciates that the State of Minnesota has recognized this foundational rule and has repealed the statute governing the program."

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MDH withdrew the assistance programme aft the DOJ initiated a reappraisal based connected Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the DOJ connection claimed. Title VI prohibits immoderate recipient of Federal fiscal assistance - a radical that includes MDH - from discriminating connected the ground of race, color, oregon nationalist origin.

Harmeet K. Dhillon speaks astatine the IAC National Summit 2026 astatine The Diplomat Beach Resort connected January 17, 2026, successful Hollywood, Florida.  (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

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Fox News Digital contacted the DOJ and MDH for further remark and confirmation.