Posted on 04/01/2025 12:52:53 PM PDT by madison10
(FOX 2) - The federal education department has pulled back more than $40 million in funds that were destined for more than two dozen Michigan school districts, the state said.
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Michigan FAFOed.
If the projects were DEI or CRT related then I’m all for the cuts, regardless of prior commitments.
Damn fools just do not understand the risk to the nation with the debt. We must cut spending by at least 20%.
No it is not, violating the rules and expecting the money is the bigger issue.
42 million for what?
Well, not exactly. I was the program manager on several government projects. They were all under contract. They were funded. Then, they weren’t. This sometimes resulted in massive layoffs. Including me, at one point. This type of financial situation arises frequently. It’s not new. The government promises. Then the government reneges.
This, exactly.
Can we get a # 1 song that talks about our 37 TRILLION dollar national debt like "blowin in the wind" that drills into every friggin persons brain ?
If the projects were DEI or CRT related then I’m all for the cuts, regardless of prior commitments.
Pencils, pens, paper. Ya know, those $5K #2 pencils? Stuff like that.
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The money, totaling nearly $42 million, would have been spent on the heating, ventilation, windows, air conditioning, and other building infrastructure for 27 different districts, the news release sent Monday said.
For that 2 month vacation cruse on that big beautiful ocean liner in first class.
I would agree with you 100% if you had said we need to cut spending by 90%.
Claw it all back.
“Cutting is one thing, cutting money already promised is quote another.”
It looks like Biden and these selected schools were still trying to milk the old COVID scare from years back. It is time to dry that mess up. They are lucky Trump is not clawing back tax dollars previously wasted.
From the article: “The State Board of Education President Dr. Pamela Pugh called the move by the Trump administration an “affront to me that the U.S. Department of Education would walk back its commitment to projects that protect the health and safety of our students—including for schools in communities such as Flint, Pontiac, and Benton Harbor that were hit especially hard by COVID-19.”
The schools were told it was okay to submit requests for reimbursement March 28, 2026. This week, that date was changed to March 28 of 2025. That doesn’t seem right.
Maybe I’m overlooking other factors. I’m hoping Education Sec. McMahon can clarify why this date was moved up.
I don’t think all that money was going to be spent on Drag Queen Story Hours. Hope not, anyway.
After careful review, the Department is modifying the liquidation period to end on March 28, 2025. The Department has concluded that the further extension of the liquidation period for the aforementioned grants, already well past the period of performance, was not justified.
COVID-19 is over, and if they have not spent COVID money by now, we SHOULD claw it back. IMHO, they never should have printed this money for them. These schools had 3-4 years to spend this money, but kept asking for extensions. Something tells me there is more to the story about what was going on with this $40M.
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