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The University of Utah’s medical school paid over $75,000 to be a member of the influential Association of American Medical Colleges, the DEI-focused organization that facilitates medical education throughout North America, according to an invoice shared with The Daily Wire.  The invoice, obtained through a public information request by Do No Harm, an organization opposed to the politicization of medicine, shows that the University of Utah’s Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine paid $75,760 for a year-long institutional membership in the AAMC starting on July 1, 2024. The AAMC counts as members all 158 American medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which the organization co-sponsors.  The AAMC has been accused of harming medical education through leftist political initiatives, including its commitment to DEI initiatives, “anti-racism,” and promoting transgender ideology. A comprehensive report from Do No Harm highlights the full extent of the AAMC’s DEI programs.  “It’s just ironic that the medical schools are held captive to pay this kind of money to be dished out all the crap that comes out of the AAMC,” Laura Morgan, the author of the report and Do No Harm’s senior director of programs, told The Daily Wire. Additionally, the medical school twice paid over $20,000 to the AAMC over the last two years for a booth and marketing services at the organization’s annual conference. For this year’s AAMC conference in Atlanta, the school paid $18,000 alone for marketing services and another $5,250 for the booth.  During some of their previous appearances at the conference, the school has hosted talks on “The Power of Diversity in Medicine,” “Is Climate Change a Health Care Issue?” and “Developing Leadership Opportunities for Women in Academic Medicine.”  AAMC member schools receive professional development for faculty, policy advocacy before Congress, access to data and research, applicant and student services, and accreditation services. The organization was founded in 1876.  In recent years, the AAMC has moved beyond medicine to promote race-based academic admissions policies, racially-focused medical theories, and transgender medical procedures for children. The group has also declared that DEI in health care is one of its top priorities.  ”Because the AAMC promotes so much of the ideologically based information, then that just trickles into the medical schools and they perpetuate it,” Morgan said. “What’s it going look like when there’s a whole generation of doctors who can tell you all about microaggressions or transgenderism, but they don’t know anything about how your heart works.” Do No Harm director of research Ian Kingsbury pointed out that the AAMC’s DEI agenda has gone beyond mere recommendations. He said in one instance, the LCME pressured the University of Utah School of Medicine because it said the school’s “diversity/pipeline programs and partnerships” were “unsatisfactory.” LCME later claimed that it had a broad definition of diversity that expanded beyond race and gender.  JOIN THE MOVEMENT IN ’25 WITH 25% OFF DAILYWIRE+ ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPS WITH CODE DW25 “They play a game of pretending that these are simply recommendations but we have reasons to suspect that they are enforcing this ideological agenda,” Kingsbury said. “It’s not simply that they are recommending these things, they are saying that schools must do this.”  He added that it might be necessary to have the federal government intervene because the AAMC had “lost the plot so badly,” and had no competitor to force them to focus on academics.  “There is a social contract in medicine which says that doctors will do medicine and we will largely leave them alone while they practice medicine,” he said. “Once they stop doing medicine and start doing whatever the hell this is, you forfeit your end of that social contract.”

Donald Trump has promised to act swiftly when he returns to the White House on Monday, January 2025 — and he’s made a slew of statements about what he plans to do on “day one.” His agenda prioritizes sealing the border and stopping the migrant invasion, carrying out the largest deportation operation in American history, ending inflation, making America the dominant energy producer in the world, and turning the United States into a manufacturing superpower. But when it comes to “day one” priorities, Trump has mentioned settling the Russia-Ukraine war, closing the border, beginning deportation plans, cutting federal funding to schools pushing Critical Race Theory and gender ideology or vaccine mandates, and more. “I’ve been told that it’s going to be shock and awe as far as executive orders and all the list, the things that are going to happen on January 20th and that they’re going to throw a lot in the first day and maybe a couple of days that will have to be digested,” Fox News host Bret Baier said earlier this month. On Wednesday night, Trump and his top advisers met with Republican senators and discussed plans for 100 executive orders, Axios reported Thursday. It’s not clear if those orders will all be issued on day one — but here is a breakdown of the issues they will likely deal with. Illegal Immigration It’s very clear that a main focus of the Trump administration will be stopping the border crisis. “On day one of the Trump presidency, I will restore the travel ban, suspend refugee admissions, stop the resettlement and keep the terrorists the hell out of our country,” the president-elect said in July. “We know he promised to sign an executive order to secure the southern border,” Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in December on Fox News. “We know that on day one he is going to launch the largest mass deportation of illegal immigrants in American history.” Longtime Trump immigration adviser Stephen Miller reportedly told senators on Wednesday night that they plan to use executive power towards fixing the border on the very first day. That includes building the border wall, constructing facilities to hold migrants, imposing new asylum restrictions, and reimplementing Title 42, the COVID-era rule that allows authorities to rapidly remove migrants apprehended at the border. It also includes using part of the Immigration and Nationality Act that allows local law enforcement and state law enforcement to help assist ICE, according to Axios. He’s expected to begin the process of mass deportations, suspend refugee admissions, end the visa-free parole process for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (which allowed 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to enter the United States as of August), and to roll back a memo from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas directing ICE officers to learn “the totality of the facts and circumstances” about illegal immigrant’s criminal convictions before deciding to deport them, according to POLITICO. Trans-Identifying Military Members Two people reportedly familiar with Trump’s plans told NBC that he plans to put a stop to taxpayer-funded transgender procedures for service members, including hormones and surgeries that make members temporarily un-deployable. Trump reversed an Obama-era policy allowing trans-identifying troops during his first administration, citing concerns that these troops required “substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery,” which often take several months to recover from. The Supreme Court sided with Trump on the matter in January 2019. President Joe Biden, however, repealed that ban shortly after taking office, and Biden’s Pentagon has promoted radical gender ideology both online and within military ranks. Trump has pledged to reverse that trend, warning ahead of the 2024 election: “There’s woke at the top…You need people that want to win. They want to win wars. That’s what their purpose is, to win wars not to be woke.” “If you want to have a sex change or a social justice seminar, then you can do it somewhere else, but you’re not going to do it in the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, Space Force, or the United States Marines,” he promised on the campaign trail in August. He’s also put forward veteran Pete Hegseth, who has been outspoken in condemning woke ideology within the military, as his choice for Secretary of Defense. Taxpayer-Funded Abortions For Military Members Trump will also reportedly end travel reimbursements for military members who want to get abortions, according to NBC News. The topic was highly publicized by Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who held up approval of mass military promotions for months over the DOD policy reimbursing military members who travel for out-of-state abortions of unborn babies. Ending DEI Programs Trump may also issue a day one executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and personnel within the federal government, according to Axios, which fulfills his campaign promise to root out “all Marxist diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrats.” Trump has also promised to end funding for any schools pushing “critical race theory, radical gender ideology and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.” Pardons For January 6 Defendants The president-elect has repeatedly said that he may pardon many of the 1,600 people charged for their involvement in the January 6 Capitol Riot. Hundreds of these individuals have been jailed, and Trump has frequently spoken out against the treatment they have received. “Most likely, I’ll do it very quickly,” he said in a December interview with NBC News. “I’m looking first day.” Banning Men Who Think They Are Women From Female Sports Trump’s campaign poured millions into ads that exposed former presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s stances on gender ideology, and as part of Trump’s campaign promises, he repeatedly said he would ban men who identify as transgender women from female sports. Axios reports that Trump plans to stop men in women’s sports through an executive order, though it is not clear if this will happen on his first day in office. Energy and the Economy Trump promised in October that, “on day one,” he will “sign an executive order directing every federal agency to immediately remove every single burdensome regulation driving up the cost of goods.” And this week, he said at a press conference: “I will revoke the offshore oil, gas drilling ban in vast areas on day one.”