Today, the Department of Education terminated 29 DEI training grants totaling $101mm.
One sought to train teachers to “help students understand / interrogate the complex histories involved in oppression, and help students recognize areas of privilege and power on an individual and collective basis.“
Also today, the Department Of Education terminated 89 contracts worth $881mm.
One contractor was paid $1.5mm to “observe mailing and clerical operations” at a mail center.”
Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months.
Wait, what? CEPPS has raked in massive amounts of USAID money and still controls half a billion dollars in active government awards—yet they just funnel it straight to partisan NGOs, splitting it between the Republican-aligned International Republican Institute and the Democratic National Democratic Institute?