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Canceled Contracts: $350k interactive gay travel guides to better understand historical LGBTQ+ spaces, $350k to create a Spanish version of Homosauras.org, $247k to digitize stories of transgender adults... etc.
X.com ^ | May 20, 2025 | Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE

Posted on 05/22/2025 4:43:29 PM PDT by ransomnote

Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
During the previous administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the following grants to spend taxpayer dollars, all of which have been cancelled ($163M in overall savings). NEH grants will be merit-based and awarded to non-DEI, pro-America causes:

- $350k for interactive gay travel guides to better understand historical LGBTQ+ spaces
- $350k to create a Spanish version of http://Homosauras.org (https://en.homosaurus.org)
- $247k to digitize stories of transgender adults in the Pacific Northwest
- $75k to examine the relationship between internet live streaming and LGBTQ+ communities
- $60k to research how LGBTQ+ cartoonists innovated comics in the 1980s & 1990s
- $150k for excavation of Egypt's first industrial-scale brewery

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1 posted on 05/22/2025 4:43:29 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

How did this nonsense ever get into a budget bill? Who wrote this and who was responsible for inserting this into a budget bill? Lastly, who knew is was included, and did anyone object?


2 posted on 05/22/2025 4:49:47 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: ransomnote

Each one was just a made up title to get the dollars out and back into RAT campaign slush funds.


3 posted on 05/22/2025 4:49:51 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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To: Fungi

Excellent questions, all.

Let’s hope we found out who that was, and soon.

L


4 posted on 05/22/2025 4:52:35 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: ransomnote
Interactive gay travel guide....


5 posted on 05/22/2025 4:53:27 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: ransomnote
$150k for excavation of Egypt's first industrial-scale brewery

We should've kept that one...

6 posted on 05/22/2025 5:00:42 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ransomnote

Sounds more like the National Endowment of Degeneracy. Zero the budget and shut ‘er down.


7 posted on 05/22/2025 5:09:05 PM PDT by cross_bearer_02
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To: ransomnote

A drop in the ocean.


8 posted on 05/22/2025 5:16:46 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Time to dump out the Treasury drawer and throw out all the junk that is wasting our money.)
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To: Fungi

Answer, it as inserted by some aide or some DemocRat congress crittter and probably only a few knew it because it was buried in a 3000 page omnibus bill.


9 posted on 05/22/2025 5:19:44 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Time to dump out the Treasury drawer and throw out all the junk that is wasting our money.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

True, but why can we never know who inserted it and why these thousand page bills that no one reads?

The uniparty does not want to cut spending and balance the budget—simple as that. The swamp gas in DC infects everyone.....


10 posted on 05/22/2025 5:30:57 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: ransomnote

And every year the cry was for us to Raise taxes! Raise taxes! When all the while it was just a silly spending problem. Who knew? /s


11 posted on 05/22/2025 6:07:11 PM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: ransomnote

Delete the entire “National Endowment for The Humanities”.

Such efforts, if truly morally for “the humanities”, they are best done by private endowments that do not get any government backing.


12 posted on 05/22/2025 6:20:50 PM PDT by Wuli (.)
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To: Fungi

This was all over in the two or three giant “omnibus” $1 trillion plus bills Biden got passed.


13 posted on 05/22/2025 6:22:22 PM PDT by Wuli (.)
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To: ransomnote

A brewery in Egypt?

WTF?

L


14 posted on 05/22/2025 6:24:53 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: monkeyshine

Lol…yeah!


15 posted on 05/22/2025 6:33:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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