…you might want to consider the following, information from Louis Casiano’s article at Fox News – which, given its brevity, I am posting in its entirety. (How come these kinds of articles are found so frequently at Fox and so infrequently elsewhere? Why do you suppose?):
Over a two-day period, 239 “wasteful” contracts with a “ceiling value” of $1.7 billion have been terminated, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said Thursday, including a grant intended to teach transgender and queer urban farmers about “food justice.”
The elimination of the contracts represents a savings of $400 million, according to a DOGE tweet posted on X.
Among them included an $8.5 million consulting contract for “fiscal stewardship to improve management and program operations in order to drive innovation and improve efficiency and effectiveness of business services; rethink, realign and reskill the workforce; and enhance program delivery through a number of transformational initiatives.”
On Tuesday, DOGE announced the National Institutes of Health canceled multiple federal grants related to trans and sexual identity. Those include $699,000 for studying “cannabis use” among “sexual minority gender diverse individuals” and $620,000 for “an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys,” DOGE said.
Another included $225,000 in federal funds for the University of Colorado to study the “effects of hormones on headaches in transmasculine adolescents.”
On Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins noted that a $379,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant in the San Francisco Bay Area to educate queer, trans and BIPOC urban farmers and consumers about food justice and values-aligned markets had been canceled.
“By stopping this wasteful spending here at USDA, we are ending identity politics, and we are refocusing our agency on its core mission of supporting American farming, ranching and forestry,” she said in a video message.
This is why the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was created. To get rid of insanity like the incomprehenibly described “fiscal stewardship to improve management and program operations in order to drive innovation…blah blah blah ????????, and the beyond mindless teen pregnancy prevention for trangender boys (why not a study of peyronie’s disease for girls too?)
And what does it tell you that the only people who are attacking DOGE – every which way – are Democrats? What does it tell you about who is OK with expenditures like these and who is not?
In this connection, my next blog, which features Peggy Noonan’s take on what the Democrat Party has become, is well worth reading. It will be up shortly.
