Re: Trump's Freezing of Federal Grants

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.
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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.