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On the recordMarch 13, 2025
Mr. President, I spoke on this topic last week, but there is just so much more to talk about this week. This is about the important work that President Trump and Elon Musk and the other folks at DOGE are doing to save taxpayer dollars. Just this past week, DOGE canceled contracts within NIH, including $75,000 for researching and studying structural racism; $620,000 for an LGB+ teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys--let me repeat that because it is hard to follow: an LGB+ teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys--$699,000 for studying cannabis use among sexual minority, gender-diverse individuals; $740,000 for examining social networks among Black and Latino sexual minority men in New Jersey; $50,000 for assessing sexual health among LGBTQ+ Latinx youth in an agricultural community. The State Department, with Secretary of State Rubio, are canceling 83 percent of the programs under USAID. What is being cut: $4 million for engineering services in Liberia, $1.1 million for an online climate change tool, $4 million for assessing primary education in Kenya, and much, much more. And at the EPA, Secretary Zeldin canceled over 400 DEI and environmental justice grants across 9 grant programs that total $1.7 billion, bringing the EPA's total savings to over $2 billion. And wait until you hear this: According to reports from the Daily Wire, $2 billion in funding was directed toward a group called Power Forward Communities.…
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Eric Schmitt
Republican · Missouri

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