Posted on 06/06/2025 10:51:39 AM PDT by bitt
‘The American people overwhelmingly rejected these soft-on-crime, defund-the-police policies in the last election because they undermined the safety and security of their communities.’
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a report “exposing the disastrous consequences” of Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) awarding millions in taxpayer-funded grants to two non-governmental organizations with “radical” agendas.
The report showcases how, as Grassley noted in a statement, the tax dollars Biden’s DOJ gave to the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) and Impact Justice funded “left-leaning agendas that ultimately put lives at risk.”
“This is just a small sampling of the grant programs scrutinized by the Justice Department, but an inspection of these recipients suggests potentially a much bigger problem in how the Justice Department historically has awarded its grant funds,” Grassley said in his introduction to the report.
According to the group’s website, Vera’s mission is to create programs to “end the criminalization and mass incarceration of people of color, immigrants, and people experiencing poverty.”
Vera “reportedly received $6.75 million in contracts from the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice” between 2022-2023, Grassley’s report reads, citing InfluenceWatch. In April, the Trump DOJ said it was terminating $5 million dollars worth of grants to the organization on the basis that its activity “no longer effectuate[s] the program goals or agency priorities,” Vera reported.
Later that month, Vera launched an “Emergency Justice Fund,” asking people to give them money directly.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
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Get it back
I hope we all remember that Congress appropriated the “grant” money en bloc,and delegated to administration bureaucrats its Constitutional powers to make the specific decisions, apparently with no oversight, monitoring, or accounting on who it went to and what for. Congress’s Inspectors General totally failed. Congress totally failed. The system was designed to fail and worked accordingly.
That crew are getting closer to returning back to 1939 by the day.
And yet both are presently free men.
Another example of our gummit funding our own enemies
What does Soros backed mean since the taxpayers seem to have picked up the tag for his scams. I presume that his function is to figure out to skim off the top of the grift and launder it for the politicians.
bump
The 'support a criminal lowlife' NGO... YOUR taxdollars at work...
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