Of all the recent attacks on academic freedom in Texas, this might be the most chilling: A Texas A&M student interrupts her professor to say, “I’m not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president…”
Where are we?
https://t.co/AcfmX2X2Zr
“We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary. I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us.”
Reminder, this is paid for by Californians!
Texas: a taker state (roughly $70 billion more than what they GIVE to the federal government)
California: a giver state (roughly $80 billion more than we RECEIVE from the federal government)
It’s really worth reading this letter. The city of San Marcos, Texas has suggested that they could use the $4.4 million in tax money their residents sent to Israel to instead manage domestic problems (addiction, education etc) and now the governor is calling them antisemites
CFPB - closed
USAID - closed
Medicaid - under attack
NIH cancer funding - frozen
Department of Education - under attack
But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today?
SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk