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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Trump's Freezing of Federal Grants
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:45:24 -0000 (UTC)
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On Jan 28, 2025 at 6:09:51 PM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

> 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.

That's what they're doing. They've put a stop to it until they can decide
which ones are legitimate and which ones are ridiculous wastes of money.