{"id":2472324,"date":"2025-08-08T08:34:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-targets-experts-funneling-tax-dollars-to-leftist-projects\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:37:57","slug":"trump-targets-experts-funneling-tax-dollars-to-leftist-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-targets-experts-funneling-tax-dollars-to-leftist-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Targets &#8216;Experts&#8217; Funneling Tax Dollars To Leftist Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Ftrump-targets-experts-funneling-tax-dollars-to-leftist-projects%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=2472324&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--><p>The summary of the article is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled &#8220;Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking,&#8221; which removes the control of federal grant funding from career bureaucrats and places it under political appointees chosen by the president. this change aims to ensure that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >taxpayer dollars fund projects aligned wiht<\/a> the national interest and political leadership, rather than what the order describes as left-wing or harmful ideologies. The order criticizes past federal grants for supporting projects related to critical race theory, Marxism, transgender education, unsafe research in Wuhan, AI censorship tools, and services to illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>The new oversight process requires political appointees to oversee grant approvals and mandates that subject matter experts be involved in scientific grant reviews, but ultimately decisions rest with politically accountable officials. The order prohibits funding projects that promote racial discrimination, deny human sex binary, support illegal immigration, or compromise public safety and American values.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the order seeks to simplify the grant application process, which has historically favored applicants able to afford legal and technical help. It encourages a broader distribution of grants rather of concentrating funding among a few repeat recipients. Agencies must coordinate to avoid duplicate funding and appoint political appointees to annually monitor projects to ensure progress and alignment with priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, grant agreements will include termination clauses allowing the government to halt funding if projects no longer meet goals. Agencies have 30 days to align their grant procedures with these new rules and report compliance to the Office of Management and Budget.<\/p>\n<p>the order aims to increase political accountability and reduce the influence of so-called &#8220;expert&#8221; bureaucrats in federal grant decisions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The so-called &ldquo;expert&rdquo; class took another blow Thursday after President Donald Trump signed an executive order largely stripping them of the power to use taxpayer funding on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supporting-tax-hikes-in-a-recession-wont-help-vulnerable-democrat-senators-win-tight-races\/\" title=\"Supporting Tax Hikes In A Recession Won\u2019t Help Vulnerable Democrat Senators Win Tight Races\">left-wing pet projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The order, called &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/08\/improving-oversight-of-federal-grantmaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking<\/a>,&rdquo; requires that a political appointee of the president, not a career bureaucrat, would ultimately be in charge of ushering through federal grant proposals. That makes taxpayer dollars being used to fund projects accountable to the political leadership chosen by the American people, by way of electing the president.<\/p>\n<p>Self-appointed &ldquo;experts&rdquo; have for decades been in complete control of approving or disapproving grant funding, which has left the country with some of the most harmful ideologies and products in history, as the litany of examples cited by the order show.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Federal grants have funded drag shows in Ecuador, trained doctoral candidates in critical race theory, and developed transgender-sexual-education programs. In 2024, one study claimed that more than one-quarter of new National Science Foundation (NSF) grants went to diversity, equity, and inclusion and other far-left initiatives,&rdquo; the order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/08\/improving-oversight-of-federal-grantmaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">states<\/a>. &ldquo;These NSF grants included those to educators that promoted Marxism, class warfare propaganda, and other anti-American ideologies in the classroom, masked as rigorous and thoughtful investigation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The harm imposed by problematic Federal grants does not stop at propagating absurd ideologies. An unsafe lab in Wuhan, China &mdash; likely the source of the COVID-19 pandemic &mdash; engaged in gain-of-function research funded by the National Institutes of Health,&rdquo; it continues. &ldquo;The NSF gave millions to develop AI-powered social media censorship tools &mdash; a direct assault on free speech.&nbsp;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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The shift in oversight will ensure that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-taxpayer-funded-abortion-seekers-are-often-repeat-customers\/\" title=\"Study: Taxpayer-... Abortion Seekers Are Often Repeat Customers\">federal tax dollars<\/a> are &ldquo;consistent with agency priorities and the national interest,&rdquo; the order states. But that could largely mean that the permanent deep state will lose one of its most effective tools for controlling politics: Directing how research and grant funding is allocated as well as picking and choosing their favorite projects.<\/p>\n<p>Political appointees in charge of grant funding will be able to call on subject matter experts of their choosing, at their own discretion. In the case of scientific research grants, a subject matter expert will be required to be a part of the review process.<\/p>\n<p>Projects are not allowed to be funded if they &ldquo;fund, promote, encourage, subsidize, or facilitate &hellip; racial preferences or other forms of racial discrimination by the grant recipient, including activities where race or intentional proxies for race will be used as a selection criterion for employment or program participation; denial by the grant recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic; illegal immigration; or any other initiatives that compromise public safety or promote anti-American values.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Another way it sidelines &ldquo;experts&rdquo; is by streamlining the actual application process itself, which in the past had required legal and technical &ldquo;expertise,&rdquo; which made the process prohibitive to those who may have a worthy project but not the money to retain lawyers to parse through the application.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it was inside baseball, and as the order points out, &ldquo;Writing effective grant applications is notoriously complex, and grant applicants that can afford legal and technical experts are more likely to receive funds &mdash; which can then further support these non-mission functions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The order further states that &ldquo;grants should be given to a broad range of recipients rather than to a select group of repeat players.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>So as to not duplicate research or projects, the order requires interagency coordination to ensure that projects funded by one agency are not already being funded by another. The heads of the agencies, like a department secretary, will also designate a political appointee to monitor the projects on an annual basis to keep them on track with regard to time and subject matter, as well as ensuring they are making requisite progress.<\/p>\n<p>According to the order, the political appointees and those they choose to be part of the process would be limited in their abilities to delegate their oversight, as the order specifies, &ldquo;Senior appointees and their designees shall not ministerially ratify or routinely defer to the recommendations of others in reviewing funding opportunity announcements or discretionary awards, but shall instead use their independent judgment.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In order for a project to be approved for grant funding, the project must demonstrate that it advances the president&rsquo;s agenda, making the grantmaking process more accountable to the will of the people who elected the president.<\/p>\n<p>The heads of agencies have 30 days to review their grant procedures and submit a report to Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, ensuring that grants will now have termination clauses to allow the government to stop funding if the &ldquo;award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Reports will also detail how many active grants have termination clauses, and if they do not, take steps &ldquo;to the extent permitted by law&rdquo; revise them so that they do.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Breccan F. Thies is a correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert&#8221; class loses control as Trump limits grant power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2472325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4159-scaled-e1754613877938.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4521,59226,37179,3634],"class_list":["post-2472324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-experts","tag-leftist-projects","tag-tax-dollars","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4159-scaled-e1754613877938.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472324","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\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472328,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472324\/revisions\/2472328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}