Hell has no fury like big-government feeds who are facing budget breaks. Oh my goodness, President Donald Trump’s efforts to rein in excessive spending in a national authorities with a morbidly obese gap have been a hit.  ,
” The majority of people chose to buy less expensive hens.” Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N. M., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke in a stirring meeting on Wednesday following the Trump administration’s decision to freeze national loans and grants.  ,
News flash for you, Martin: Cheaper goods and services — including egg — didn’t happen without a change in direction from the large, unjustifiable saving by Trump’s father, congressional Democrats, and too many uniparty Democrats. Americans voted for sobriety in their nation’s federal government, and that includes a gain to fiscal caution, which will eventually stop runaway prices and, as they will, taking a big bite out of the soaring$ 36 trillion debt.  ,
Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., told The Federalist in a phone interview from his northeastern Wisconsin district on Wednesday that “everyone knows this saving blow happened over the last five decades and some of that money is for reasons that are not capable of our tax money.” ” We all know there’s tremendous waste, fraud and abuse in this government” . ,
We do. Trump knows that, too.  ,
Rabid Jackals ,
This president has a tenacious resolve to accomplish what so many Americans, especially so-called conservative politicians, have been clamoring from the rooftops for years in his first nine days of his second non-consecutive term. According to politicians, Americans must live within their means. Why can’t Congress? Why can’t the federal government?  ,
But if you actually do something, the majority of the political class will beg you like rabid jackals.  ,
Look what the Trump administration’s implementation of the federal grant and loan suspension was like this week. The shopaholics in Congress screamed in opposition to the government’s efforts to stop payments to Medicaid and other welfare recipients in a coalition effort against a politically weakened corporate media. A typical big government defender’s scare tactic. Their attorneys quickly took to the streets and defeated fiscal restraint with the assistance of the same New York attorney general who had fought Trump and a federal judge appointed by Biden.  ,
Medicaid, however, was never on the table, according to a memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget.  ,
The memo states that “mandate programs like Medicaid and SNAP will continue without pause.” The freeze only applies to programs like DEI initiatives and gender ideology extremism that should never be anywhere near taxpayer-funded.  ,
Despite the setback, Trump held firm on his administration’s federal government funding reviews to weed out waste.  ,
‘ Shockingly Bad ‘
Dems and the media ignored the massive welfare program’s massive waste, fraud, and abuse, while the corporate media and the media made political hay with the Medicaid lie. According to the Government Accountability Office, taxpayers lost more than$ 100 billion in “improper” payments —$ 50.3 billion in Medicaid benefits, and$ 55.1 billion in Medicare — in 2023. 43 percent of the total$ 240 billion in improper payments were reported by all federal agencies as payment “errors.” All told, federal taxpayers were on the hook for$ 2.7 trillion in payment errors between 2003 and 2023, according to the GAO.  ,
As government spending watchdog Open the Books ( OTB ) tracks in a new report, 75 of a total of 441 federal agencies listed in the Federal Register are defunct, many for decades. That’s the essence of government dysfunction.
” Record keeping within the Federal Register, which is supposed to be the definitive guide to government policy, is shockingly bad”, the report states. Members of the public are required to conduct thorough research to determine the composition of their own government because records of those agencies are frequently not updated and not only are those listed as long-defunct.
Let’s take a look at some of the federal grants that the Trump administration is trying to cut down on. According to a review conducted for The Federalist for OTB, The Dirty Dozen includes federal funding for a “diversity audit tool” and funding for a girl’s running club in Gaza.
Here’s what you’re paying for:  ,
1. The State Department —$ 100, 000 to Free to Run, Inc. The grant, which will expire at the end of May, was sold as a program aimed at “promoting weekly running and wellness sessions” to strengthen Palestinian girls and young women’s resilience. Is Hamas enthusiastic about this initiative for girls ‘ empowerment? Free to Run’s founder, Stephanie Case, is a division chief for the the terrorist-tied United National Relief and Works Agency ( UNRWA ).
Talk about confusion, Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, told the Washington Examiner the Biden administration’s decision to fund the” Palestinian girls ‘ fun run confused” the hell “out of him.  ,
” None of this sh*t surprises me, but these things frustrate the hell out of the American people,” Nehls said.
2. National Science Foundation — A two-year grant award expected to top$ 1.5 million to Florida State University to fund” Black Feminist Epistemologies: Building a Sisterhood in Computing. Recent studies show that Black women enrolled in undergraduate computing degree programs at predominantly white institutions ( PWIs ) attest to the lack of support, mentorship, and resources that prevent them from completing their degrees.” The NSF abstract defends the award in part by noting that. ” Just who conducted those studies is not clear.  ,
3.  , National Science Foundation — ,$ 119, 520 for a conference titled” Re-imagining Biology Education Through Social Justice, “featuring a talk on” Gender-Inclusive Adaptations to Biology Teaching. ” Imagine that.  ,
4. Department of Agriculture — ,$ 717, 000 to Ohio State University. According to the project grant, the money is being used to address the” cultural resistance in the USA and Europe ] that impedes the acceptance of insect proteins as food sources. A multidisciplinary research initiative aims to develop sustainable extraction techniques to extract protein, lipids, and other important components from insect meal, according to the grant. This project is funded until the end of August 2027.  ,
5. National Science Foundation —$ 399, 930 to Montana State University. This DEI project, funded through September 2027, is supposed to honor” indigenous knowledge “by” infusing native ways of knowing into engineering education,” but without engaging in the” misappropriation of indigenous knowledge. What about the unauthorized use of taxpayer funds?  ,
6. Institute of Museum &, Library Services — ,$ 352, 799 to the University of Wisconsin System to investigate” play-based programs and spaces “at museums and develop a” diversity audit tool for practitioners to examine their play programs and spaces for diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging considerations.” The National Leadership grant is a DEI project with a particular emphasis on play opportunities for children aged 0 to 12 and is funded through the end of the year. ”  ,
7. National Science Foundation ,$ 634, 856, also to the University of Wisconsin System. The grant, which is funded through August 2027, provides federal tax dollars for the exploration of “urgent yet unexplored pedagogical change work in higher education.” An 8-hour short course that addresses the urgency of equity indoctrination includes an 8-hour course that covers topics like how settler colonialism and racial exploitation have affected both the field’s history and current practices and disciplinary culture.
8. National Endowment for the Humanities —$ 54, 981 to pay for a” Minor Critical Game Studies” program at Chapel Hill’s University of North Carolina. To investigate how game narratives shape and are shaped by power structures and cultural representations, the grant program combined rhetorical and literary theories with feminist studies, queer studies, and ethnic studies. Game night will never be the same. How about some LGBTQ Scrabble? Or Feminist Yahtzee? Something special from Parker Brothers.  ,
9. Department of Health and Human Services — ,$ 792, 443 , to the University of Texas-Austin. The five-year grant, funded through July 2029, promotes the testing of a hypothesis that” it is cisheteronormativity, the societal belief that everyone is cisgender and heterosexual, that increases risk for exposure to general ACEs]adverse childhood experiences], that cisheteronormativity leads to cisheterosexism, or SGM]social and gender minority ] -identity based discrimination, mistreat and violence exposure, and that exposure to cisheterosexism. ” What they said. How about the general consensus that this kind of pseudoscience shouldn’t be funded by taxpayers?  ,
10. National Science Foundation , — ,$ 445, 600 to Ohio State University for the Girls * on Rock program, which strives to build” an inclusive outdoor STEAM ( Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics ) and mentorship experience — increasing the diversity in the geosciences with respect to gender, race and ethnicity…” Wow. The program, funded through April 2027, offers rock climbing in the Rockies with a DEI twist.  ,
11. Department of Health and Human Services —  ,$ 600, 000 to the University of Virginia. The grant, funded through July 2029, will help the people involved in this scheme to ”, identif]y ] and measur]e ] domains of structural ableism “which” parallels foundational work across other forms of structural oppression, such as structural racism, classism, ageism, sexism, and heterosexism.” That works out to about$ 100, 000 per ism.
12. National Science Foundation , — The NSF sure is busy. In this case, it doled out more than$ 112, 000 to Rutgers University to develop” theory around processes of social control, state practices and human agency” about the deportation of” immigrants with criminal records. ” The study, which concluded in 2022, was supposed to deepen the” understanding of the relationship between citizenship, the law, and policing practices that have so impacted racialized immigrant communities. ” Perhaps Border Czar Tom Homan has a few words for” radicalized immigrant communities about how they handle” immigrants with criminal records. ” See also: The Laken Riley Act.  ,
The Federalist’s senior elections correspondent, Matt Kittle, is. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
