America First Legal Sues HHS, CMS, and HRSA to Uncover the Biden Administration’s Plan to Prioritize Organ Transplants Based on Skin Color
Washington, D.C. — July 1, 2025
Today, America First Legal (AFL) sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) to compel the release of records related to the Biden Administration’s infusion of “equity” into the nation’s organ transplantation system.
Shortly after taking office, President Biden signed Executive Order 13985, “Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,” to institutionalize his administration’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) agenda across the federal government. This Executive Order directed federal agencies to conduct an “Equity Assessment” to identify whether underserved communities and their members face systemic barriers to participating in federal programs and to produce an equity action plan for addressing those alleged barriers. In response, in December 2021, CMS issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public comments to “Advance Equity and Reduce Disparities in Organ Transplantation.” In January 2022, HRSA announced new data reporting protocols to highlight the race and ethnicity of transplant recipients. Two months later, HRSA announced a “modernization initiative” that would “strengthen … equity … in the organ donation and transplantation system.”
On April 3, 2023, AFL filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking documents relevant to the Biden Administration’s plans for infusing racial equity into the organ transplantation system. Despite acknowledging AFL’s request, these agencies have not produced a single responsive document since the requests were submitted more than two years ago. AFL is now suing to enforce this request and expose the Biden Administration’s plan to prioritize organ transplants based on race and ethnicity instead of clinical need.
This lawsuit is part of AFL’s broader campaign to dismantle the Biden Administration’s DEI infrastructure and restore Merit-Based Medicine to America’s healthcare system.
Organ transplants should always be given by need and nothing else. It’s such a privilege to receive a donors organ, nothing else matters..next on the wait list should be asked as long as the match is good! No one should be put in front of the line for DEI reasons, ever!
EAT ORGANIC FOOD, EXERCISE AND LIVE HEALTHY AND YOU WILL NEVER NEED 'ORGANS'. THE WHOLE ORGAN REPLACEMENT THING REPRESENTS A MECHANISTIC COMPLETELY WRONG AND TOXIC VIEW OF MEDICINE THAT IS INSANITY!
Organ transplants should always be given by need and nothing else. It’s such a privilege to receive a donors organ, nothing else matters..next on the wait list should be asked as long as the match is good! No one should be put in front of the line for DEI reasons, ever!
EAT ORGANIC FOOD, EXERCISE AND LIVE HEALTHY AND YOU WILL NEVER NEED 'ORGANS'. THE WHOLE ORGAN REPLACEMENT THING REPRESENTS A MECHANISTIC COMPLETELY WRONG AND TOXIC VIEW OF MEDICINE THAT IS INSANITY!