CNN issued an amendment after the network inaccurately claimed that President Donald Trump “misconfirmed” that the Biden administration had spent $8 million to make mice transgender.
In a joint speech to Congress Tuesday, Trump cited several examples of “crissing waste,” including $8.2 million in a NIH-funded study on “gender-affirming” hormone-treated mice. CNN’s Deidre McPhillips was originally I tried to object to the claimclaimed that only about $500,000 was allocated for similar studies in monkeys – she was forced to issue later Correction After the White House proved CNN’s “fact check” was inaccurate statement. (Related: Dismissed NOAA workers reduce Doge Cuts after spending millions of comics about “gender-neutral” space aliens)
“Last night, President Donald J. Trump highlighted many of the terrible examples of waste, fraud and abuse funded by American taxpayers, including the $8 million spent by the Biden administration “to make mice transgender,” reads a White House statement. “CNN’s fake news losers tried to fact-check it right away, but President Trump was right (as always).
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“Trump falsely claimed that the government’s Department of Efficiency has identified government spending of ‘$8 million to make mice transgender’,” CNN said. original Fact Check Read.
The White House subsequently issued a statement listing six NIH grants for research into hormone therapy in mice. Total of $8,290,053. Includes Biden-era grants $455,000 “Hormonal therapy that maintains gender regarding HIV-vaccine-induced immune responses; $2.5 million To study the reproduction outcomes of hormone therapy, $299,940 To study testosterone therapy regarding breast cancer risk and treatment outcomes, $735,113 To study the effects of hormone therapy on the microbiota of mice, $1.2 million To study “androgen effect on the reproductive neuroendocrine axis” $3.1 million Studying hormones as sex mediators is affected by asthma. All listed studies included hormone supplementation in mice.
CNN’s initial Fact Check Wednesday morning narrowly focus on three NIHs the study. We focused on a $299,940 grant from the National Cancer Institute “to compare breast cancer rates in female mice and those receiving testosterone therapy.” The other two at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases focused on “How the HIV vaccine worked in mice receiving cross-sex hormone therapy,” totaling $455,120.
The outlet later updated the page and changed “Trump’s false claim” to “a situation where this claim is needed.” The outlet also explicitly admits the previous error, writing that “previous versions of this item were falsely characterized as false Trump claims about federal money spent “making mouse transgender.”
“The White House list revealed what Trump did in his speech. The study was intended to understand how these treatments affect the health of the humans who take them, not to make mice transgender,” McPhillips wrote, adding “context” to the first false article.
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