{"id":1936193,"date":"2023-05-23T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taxpayers-spend-billions-of-dollars-annually-on-a-woke-welfare-racket\/"},"modified":"2023-05-23T10:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:37:54","slug":"taxpayers-spend-billions-of-dollars-annually-on-a-woke-welfare-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taxpayers-spend-billions-of-dollars-annually-on-a-woke-welfare-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"Billions of taxpayer dollars go towards a woke welfare scheme every year."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaxpayers-spend-billions-of-dollars-annually-on-a-woke-welfare-racket%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1936193&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Taxpayers are unwittingly funding the leftist assault on American values<\/h2>\n<p>Every year, the U.S. federal government awards hundreds of billions of dollars in grants and contracts to various entities. While much of this funding is noncontroversial, some of it is funneled to organizations that engage in or advocate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-americans-can-no-longer-conduct-business-and-commerce-as-usual\/\" title=\"Conservative Americans Can No Longer Conduct Business \u2014 And Commerce \u2014 As Usual\">leftist political activism<\/a>. This ecosystem of government funding for leftist groups has gone largely unnoticed, but the Claremont Institute\u2019s Center for the American Way of Life has created the Federal Progressive Subsidy Database to track federal \u201csubsidies\u201d for leftist political activism.<\/p>\n<h3>$6 Billion Since 2016<\/h3>\n<p>At the time of this writing, our database contained 2,618 entries chronicling more than $6 billion in federal subsidies to leftists since 2016. While this amount may seem small compared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-tries-to-rally-support-in-georgia-for-4-trillion-in-spending-plans-paid-for-by-tax-hikes\/\" title=\"Biden Tries to Rally Support in Georgia for  Trillion In Spending Plans, Paid for By Tax Hikes\">total federal budget<\/a>, it is enough to dramatically affect the nonprofit world. It is also likely just a small fraction of the real money that goes to leftist groups, much of which is laundered through respectable, seemingly nonpartisan foundations or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">programs<\/a>, but which is often difficult to trace to its government source.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Affirmative action programs<\/li>\n<li>LGBT advocacy groups<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCulturally responsive\u201d education<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSocial-emotional learning\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Critical race theory (CRT)<\/li>\n<li>Efforts to remake libraries and other facilities to be \u201cantiracist\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sex-positive sex education<\/li>\n<li>DEI initiatives (including expensive \u201cdiversity consultants\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It goes without saying that we found virtually no evidence of payments to right-wing groups. Our new tool gives Congress the necessary information to end subsidies to leftist activism. Every Republican, whether a \u201cdeficit hawk\u201d or anti-wokeness warrior, should be eager to do so.<\/p>\n<h3>Immigration Is the Largest Category<\/h3>\n<p>Funding to immigration-related organizations represents by far the biggest category in our database. The never-ending Biden border crisis has facilitated an environment in which leftist nonprofits involve themselves in every aspect of the immigration process. Federal money should not prop up activist organizations, most of which subsist heavily on federal aid, intent on loosening or subverting our immigration laws. Such funding slows deportation, eases the migration process, and communicates to the world that illegal immigrants will receive help and will not be sent home.<\/p>\n<h3>Funding Sex Ed<\/h3>\n<p>Sex education is another persistent racket. Groups engaged in so-called \u201cpregnancy prevention\u201d advocate for abortion, promote libertine sexual ethics, and espouse LGBT ideology. Our database is full of examples like this. Instead of subsidizing people to break our laws, we should spend that money enforcing them. For all remaining tasks, Congress should divert resources to organizations that support the American way of life. If none exist, conservatives should consider building alternative organizations to solicit federal grants.<\/p>\n<p>These reforms all involve Congress asserting oversight and control over federal agencies that have long enjoyed enormous leeway in allocating government funding. For too long, American taxpayers have underwritten a vast network of activists dedicated to overturning American values and destroying our way of life. It is our hope that by shining a light on how our government subsidizes our political enemies, the right can engage in practical steps to turn off the funding spigots and win back our culture.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Jeremy Carl, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and Douglas Walker, a research associate at the Claremont Institute\u2019s Center for the American Way of Life. Follow Jeremy on Twitter at @jeremycarl4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>promote leftist ideologies, which goes against American values. Taxpayers are unknowingly supporting this through federal grants and contracts given to various entities, including nonprofits, corporations, museums, libraries, and colleges. Although some of the funding is uncontroversial, some organizations receiving it promote leftist ideologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2058,"featured_media":1936194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[11154,5352,8020,5349,10263,5558,5734],"class_list":["post-1936193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-billions","tag-dollars","tag-scheme","tag-taxpayer","tag-welfare","tag-woke","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}