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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Trump's Freezing of Federal Grants
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:18:05 -0500
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On 1/28/2025 9:45 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> 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.

I wonder if "legitimate" and "ridiculous waste" falls along party lines.