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Why Taxpayers Are Right to Reject Immoral Research
3+ week, 3+ day ago (819+ words) may but should demand cuts to public funding for research they reject'whether on moral, religious, prudential,...and materials are acceptable for taxpayer-backed research. That is unavoidable under state patronage, and...may forcibly draft your income for his preferred research priorities,…...
Feds End Use Of Tax Dollars For Experiments On Aborted Babies
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (317+ words) babies. American taxpayers will no longer fund research that uses aborted baby body parts after the National...which applies to "all NIH-supported extramural research," such as grants, cooperative agreements, awards, and other contracts...President Trump's leadership, taxpayer-funded research must reflect…...
The Trump Administration's Fight To Fund Scientists
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (1367+ words) reimbursement rates for government-funded scientific research. "It's basically a slush fund," one NIH official...university's high overhead charges for diverting research dollars to a bloated administration and a campus...Hard To Define Distributing over $37 billion in grants every year, NIH…...
Ken Buck: Saving The Safety Net From Federal Waste
1+ week, 6+ day ago (788+ words) for life. This seemingly innocuous idea, that the federal government is best suited to meet certain needs,...government promises is peeling. Social Security -- the federal program meant to protect Americans' retirement...Medicaid -- which accounts for about 10% of the federal budget…...
Anti-Gun Research Funded With Tax Dollars?
1+ week, 3+ day ago (702+ words) professor builds his career and reputation on anti-gun research that gets published in one of the most widely...made a name for himself and secured significant federal funding by producing studies that reliably arrive...the kind of sweeping policy interventions…...
Waste Of The Day: Grants For Winter Heating Bills Are Missing
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (396+ words) income pay their heating bills over the winter." The federal Administration for Children and Families, part...taxpayer-funded. It received $38.8 million in government grants in fiscal year 2024 from Connecticut, the U.S....Agriculture and more, but only $995,000 from private grants and $1,700 from fundraising…...
Defense Dept. Threw Away Almost $100B in Use-it-or-lose-it Spendathon
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1017+ words) September 2025, when $93.4 billion was spent on grants and contracts," Open the Books reported: Since...at least 2008 " and presumably in history " no federal agency has ever spent so much on grants and contracts in a single month. In the last five......
US Agencies Terminated or Reduced 95 Wasteful Contracts Worth $2 Billion: DOGE
2+ week, 9+ min ago (128+ words) taxpayer. US Agencies Terminated or Reduced 95 Wasteful Contracts Worth $2 Billion: DOGE U.S. federal agencies have terminated or descoped 95 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $2 billion over...talent acquisition support," and a $98.5 million research contract from the Department of Education to…...
‘Fabricating evidence’: Audit of DHS grants uncovers backdated documents, oversight failures
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (709+ words) Behavioral Health Administration (BHA), which provides grants for the treatment of substance use disorders and...2024, BHA distributed more than $425 million in grants under 830 unique grant agreements, including 590 grants to nongovernmental organizations. "The Behavioral...
America Spent More Than $1 Trillion On Science For Nothing | | CDN
2+ week, 4+ day ago (390+ words) henceforth be the primary funder of university research, in the hope this would usher in a new age of...This radical experiment has now run for 75 years. Federal disbursements to university science since 1950...is that the results have been meagre....