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Mr. SCHMITT. Mr. President, I spoke on this topic last week, but there is just so much more to talk about this week. This is about the important work that President Trump and Elon Musk and the other folks at DOGE are doing to save taxpayer dollars.
Just this past week, DOGE canceled contracts within NIH, including $75,000 for researching and studying structural racism; $620,000 for an LGB+ teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys--let me repeat that because it is hard to follow: an LGB+ teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys--$699,000 for studying cannabis use among sexual minority, gender-diverse individuals; $740,000 for examining social networks among Black and Latino sexual minority men in New Jersey; $50,000 for assessing sexual health among LGBTQ+ Latinx youth in an agricultural community.
The State Department, with Secretary of State Rubio, are canceling 83 percent of the programs under USAID. What is being cut: $4 million for engineering services in Liberia, $1.1 million for an online climate change tool, $4 million for assessing primary education in Kenya, and much, much more.
And at the EPA, Secretary Zeldin canceled over 400 DEI and environmental justice grants across 9 grant programs that total $1.7 billion, bringing the EPA's total savings to over $2 billion.
And wait until you hear this: According to reports from the Daily Wire, $2 billion in funding was directed toward a group called Power Forward Communities. Who runs Power Forward Communities? That would be Stacey Abrams.
And let me just opine, just for a second, on why my Democratic colleagues on the other side are so nervous about all this DOGE stuff. It is because of this racket that has been used to launder taxpayer dollars to their buddies and their leftwing, radical groups. The gravy train is stopping, and it is terrifying to them.
But to normal people, in real America, they think this stuff is crazy. And, finally, we have somebody in the Oval Office with a team that can root this stuff out. So keep going. We are just getting started with this stuff, and we will be back next week with more ridiculous things that the Democrats want funded with your taxpayer dollars.
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