Trump & Vought issue executive order putting all federal grants and contracts under political control

[FAH1223]

For brehs and brehettes that work with federal grants, cooperative agreements… this is huge

 

[ba'al]

Still reading but look like the Trump admin is blaming a lab in China for Covid? I know that and 5G were popular conspiracy theories floating online.
As far as the grants so far it's the usual right wing rhetoric want to stop spending tax dollars on LGBT, DEI, and aid given to illegal immigrants. The Covid claim from the white house interested me more because I want to say it's been debunked.

The harm imposed by problematic Federal grants does not stop at propagating absurd ideologies. An unsafe lab in Wuhan, China — likely the source of the COVID-19 pandemic — engaged in gain-of-function research funded by the National Institutes of Health. The NSF gave millions to develop AI-powered social media censorship tools — a direct assault on free speech. Taxpayer-funded grants have also gone to non-governmental organizations that provided free services to illegal immigrants, worsening the border crisis and compromising our safety, and to organizations that actively worked against American interests abroad.

 

[WIA20XX]

Still reading but look like the Trump admin is blaming a lab in China for Covid? I know that and 5G were popular conspiracy theories floating online.
As far as the grants so far it's the usual right wing rhetoric want to stop spending tax dollars on LGBT, DEI, and aid given to illegal immigrants. The Covid claim from the white house interested me more because I want to say it's been debunked.

Researchers, who happen to have Chinese names, said that it likely came from animals and not a lab release.

The origins of COVID‐19 pandemic: A brief overview - PMC

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) outbreak that emerged at the end of 2019 has now swept the world for more than 2 years, causing immeasurable damage to the lives and economies of the world. It has drawn so much attention to discovering how ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

This isn't nearly as definitive as I would like to see.

The implication that China did it.... No one wants to think that they developed and released a biological weapon on the entire planet. 7 million deaths worldwide? ~1 million in America?

That's launch the nukes type numbers.

 

[FAH1223]

Still reading but look like the Trump admin is blaming a lab in China for Covid? I know that and 5G were popular conspiracy theories floating online.
As far as the grants so far it's the usual right wing rhetoric want to stop spending tax dollars on LGBT, DEI, and aid given to illegal immigrants. The Covid claim from the white house interested me more because I want to say it's been debunked.

Here’s the thing

It’s a way to delay awarding federal grants and creates more ways to terminate

It’s 8/8/25. The fiscal year ends on 9/30/25.

There’s no way they’re going to put NOFOs out on grants.gov in early September and award/obligate billions of dollars in 3 weeks.

 

[keond]

I feel like this is just his way of choosing when and how to punish ivy league schools that defy his dumb ass orders on DEI.

He's basically fighting the same culture wars that basement dwellers on twitter fight in comments

His goal is to make everybody kiss the ring

 

[ba'al]

Researchers, who happen to have Chinese names, said that it likely came from animals and not a lab release.

The origins of COVID‐19 pandemic: A brief overview - PMC

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) outbreak that emerged at the end of 2019 has now swept the world for more than 2 years, causing immeasurable damage to the lives and economies of the world. It has drawn so much attention to discovering how ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

This isn't nearly as definitive as I would like to see.

The implication that China did it.... No one wants to think that they developed and released a biological weapon on the entire planet. 7 million deaths worldwide? ~1 million in America?

That's launch the nukes type numbers.

Why would China release it on their own people? Doesn't make sense. Maybe it's a way for the Trump admin to duck accountability.

Here’s the thing

It’s a way to delay awarding federal grants and creates more ways to terminate

It’s 8/8/25. The fiscal year ends on 9/30/25.

There’s no way they’re going to put NOFOs out on grants.gov in early September and award/obligate billions of dollars in 3 weeks.

You're right. The covid thing stuck out to me. This also stuck out to me on the white house site.

Even at Harvard and Stanford, once considered among America’s most prestigious universities, senior researchers have resigned following accusations of data falsification.

I know Trump just fired a data expert for those job numbers he felt weren't high up. Maybe this is a trend with Trump. Any data reports this admin comes across could be dubbed as "false".

 

[MostReal]

My gosh man

 

[JNew]

We just have to accept this is now white man’s land.

Piss, moan, vote all you want shyt ain’t gonna change.

 

[Pazzy]

Keep this bullshyt in the Higher Learning forum, @FAH1223. You are already a mod of that place. why are you posting this shyt HERE? Enough of the political threads in the wrong forum

 

[Voice of Reason]

We just have to accept this is now white man’s land.

Piss, moan, vote all you want shyt ain’t gonna change.

We don't have to accept that shyt

 

[FAH1223]

Keep this bullshyt in the Higher Learning forum, @FAH1223. You are already a mod of that place. why are you posting this shyt HERE? Enough of the political threads in the wrong forum

Considering 6 cert gang has federal contracts to their livelihood, this is relevant.

 

[Pazzy]

Considering 6 cert gang has federal contracts to their livelihood, this is relevant.

You and me both know that 6 cert gang is at most 10 people on the entire forum. Most of these folks stay lying about their occupations and jobby jobs just like how folks did 20 years ago on SOHH.

 

[JNew]

We don't have to accept that shyt

What’s the alternative?

 

[Creflo ½ Dollar]

Keep this bullshyt in the Higher Learning forum, @FAH1223. You are already a mod of that place. why are you posting this shyt HERE? Enough of the political threads in the wrong forum

You need to be banned, toting water for the white man that hates blacks.

 

[MoshpitMazi]

We just have to accept this is now white man’s land.

Piss, moan, vote all you want shyt ain’t gonna change.

Naw