Leslie Eastman at LI, Our National Science Foundation Has Given Over $2 Billion to DEI Projects
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the federal government established in 1950. Its original mission was to promote the advancement of science and engineering through funding and support for research and education.
Nowhere in that mission statement do the words diversity, equity, or inclusion (DEI) appear. The NSF was intended to promote and support ground-breaking research and development that would help this nation (and perhaps all mankind as well). It was not intended to be a social welfare agency.
But in the Biden Administration’s push to foist DEI on this nation, a staggering amount of money has gone to promote this racialist travesty. The pace of funding distribution has increased exponentially: In 2021, only 0.29% of NSF grants funded DEI projects; by 2024, this increased to 27% of grants.
In its first week, the Biden-Harris administration mandated that all taxpayer-funded scientific research and development (R&D) must incorporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) values. Sen. Cruz’s investigation found that in response to this directive, NSF allocated over $2.05 billion to thousands of research projects that promoted neo-Marxist perspectives or DEI tenets.
Taxpayer dollars supported projects of questionable scientific merit, often led by researchers who used federal R&D dollars to drive divisive, extremist ideologies in their classrooms and on their campuses.
The Committee’s analysis identified 3,483 grants—over 10% of all NSF grants awarded during the Biden-Harris administration—totaling more than $2.05 billion went to questionable projects that promoted DEI or pushed neo-Marxist perspectives about enduring class struggle. The Committee grouped these grants into five categories: Status, Social Justice, Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice.
Hopefully, Trump, with the able assistance of DOGE's Elon and Vivek, will put an end to this grift.
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