Comment by ModernMech

NIH grant officers are not partisans, they are career scientists who manage a fair and transparent process for funding research. Their role is to ensure proposals are reviewed based on scientific merit, not political views. The way you're describing them is the opposite of how they operate.

The existence of diversity statements reflect institutional goals -- namely that the NIH funds science from a diverse set of researchers, to benefit a nation made up of a diverse population, who are funding all of this research.

The only partisans in the picture are the MAGA political actors who are going around saying that the NIH can't do these things for political reasons.