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Subject: Re: Trump's Freezing of Federal Grants
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:09:51 -0500
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On 2025-01-28 8:49 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> Trump issued a temporary freeze on federal grant payments today. This is a
> necessary move, as many of these of these grants are used to fund ridiculous
> left-wing projects – many not even in America!
> 
> Let's take a look at some of them.
> 
> 
> In 2021, the Biden administration gave $540,000 to Transgender Equity
> Consulting, Inc. This firm is comprised of "six black and latinks transgender
> and nonbinary individuals" – one whom is apparently the "first BBW trans porn
> star".
> 
> Alright then. Certainly sounds like something my federal tax dollars should be
> funding.
> 
> 
> The Biden admin issued $850,000 in federal grants to a left-wing
> organization's "LGBTQI+ family support program,"  to provide training for
> military families on how to "affirm the gender identity of their children".
> 
> 
> Over half a million went to support "behavioral health for the transgender
> community in Hawaii".
> 
> Thanks, Biden.
> 
> 
> Biden sent $1.2 million to the New Orleans Community Support Foundation to
> "adopt a holistic, adaptive water management vision that centers the
> leadership of black, indigenous, and people of color communities."
> 
> Water management benefits from having non-white people in charge. Who knew? Of
> course we saw how well DEI and water management mixed in L.A., didn't we?
> 
> 
> More than $600,000 to UC Irvine to "influence" social media networks to try to
> get black and latinks people to accept Wuhan Flu vaccines.
> 
> 
> $728,747 went to Florida International University to help understand the
> experiences of black students learning mathematics in a "hispanic-serving
> institution context".
> 
> Uh...okay.
> 
> 
> Half a million for natural resource management...in Honduras.
> 
> 
> However, all of the above combined amounts to just a drop in the bucket when
> compared to how much money is going to pro-illegal immigration stuff.
> 
> Example: Over $278 MILLION to Catholic Charities of Fort Worth for "refugee
> cash and medical assistance".
> 
> Yep, that's right. Our tax money going to provide free health care and cash
> handouts to illegals. You still have to pay for your health care, don't you,
> you stupid American citizen. But illegals just have to crawl across the border
> and the federal government will give it to them for free... with your money.
> 
> 
I have no doubt that many of these grants are not a good use of public 
money; the beneficiaries should probably be left to their own devices - 
i.e. fundraising - to fund their activities.

I have to wonder how many of these grants go to good and worthy causes 
that taxpayers would approve. Surely there must be SOME!

Is turning off the grant tap entirely really the best way to proceed? 
Maybe grants need to be assessed individually and only cut off if they 
fail to meet whatever criteria the government sets for being worthy of 
grants. Otherwise, it starts to look like a case of throwing out the 
baby with the bathwater....

It seems to me that one of the many things Musk's DOGE should be doing 
is evaluating how grants are awarded: who decides which organizations 
get money - and how much - and what criteria are used to determine if 
the grant is a good use of public money. I can imagine several different 
criteria, varying from reasonable to blatantly corrupt.

-- 
Rhino