President Donald Trump on Aug. 7 signed an executive order that takes aim at federal grant spending, seeking to tighten parameters to receive approval for such grants and subject grant award decisions to evaluation by executive appointees.
“Every tax dollar the Government spends should improve American lives or advance American interests. This often does not happen,” the executive order says. “Federal grants have funded drag shows in Ecuador, trained doctoral candidates in critical race theory, and developed transgender-sexual-education programs.”
The order comes as Trump’s administration seeks wide-ranging cuts to federal spending on a variety of projects and services, as well as reductions to the size of the federal bureaucracy and other spending reductions….
Trump Takes Aim at Grant Spending in New Executive Order
