Trump officials oppose funding museum for victims of Tuskegee syphilis study

Justice department fighting use of unclaimed money from settlement for museum honoring black men who were not given treatment for disease

The Trump administration is opposing an attempt to use unclaimed money from a legal settlement over the government's infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to fund a museum honoring its victims.

The justice department argued in court documents recently that providing the money to the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center would violate an agreement reached in 1975 to settle a class-action lawsuit.