EXCLUSIVE: Congress Has Power To Rein In Wacky, Wasteful DEI Spending In Science, Watchdog Says
Congress has the power to Final diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in scientific research subsidies at National Science Foundation (NSF), According to an openthebooks analysis published Thursday.
Openthebooks’ Report, obtained for the first time by the Daily Caller News Foundation, says that “Far too much” of the NSF scientific subsidies “reward the division identity policy”. The surveillance organization also said that The NSF has descended into “ideological madness” in recent years.
Openhebooks has also written that Congress “has a political majority and a popular mandate to increase public spending.” An analysis of October 2024 of the organization revealed that the Biden administration spent more than $ 800 million on subsidies focused on the education of NSF promoting Dei.
An NSF Openthebooks discovery subsidy was $ 445,600 granted to Ohio State University for girls * on Rock, A program that aims to diversify geosciences by offering that “girls aged 16 to 18 and non -binary people with immersive practical experiences in geosciences, combined with elements of artistic expression and technical climbing in the Rocky, Colorado mountains.” (Related: “disinformation” researchers lose it after Trump’s administrator has reduced more funding)
Alexandria, Virginie – July 08: the entrance to 2514 Eisenhower Avenue, where the National Science Foundation is also located, was seen on July 8, 2025 in Alexandria, Virginia. (Photo of Alex Wong / Getty Images)
Openhebooks has written in their report that “the criteria mandated by the congress have structurally encouraged the addition of Dei, the awareness of minorities and gender policy to grant proposals in order to gain funding.”
“Non -profit organizations have followed suit,” wrote the guard dog. “In future administrations that might not align with Trump’s decrees,” [the] The existing statutes may return federal money to the same set of distractions and far from hard scientific innovation. Each dollar that the federal government spends for a FADDISH subsidy is a dollar not available to cure breast cancer or infant leukemia. »»
In addition, the republican senator from Texas Ted Cruz report In October 2024, which noted that the NSF allocated more than $ 2.05 billion to thousands of research projects which “promoted neo-Marxist prospects or Dei principles” under the Biden administration.
The Trump Administration was the spearhead of a push to dismantle Dei and gender ideology in the United States at a conference address in March, President Donald Trump said that his administration had “eended the tyranny of so-called [DEI] Politicians throughout the federal government and indeed in the private sector. »»
The NSF did not respond to the request for comments from the DCNF.
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