Red States jump to copy Trump’s worst movements

Normally, states are not super-jazzes when the federal government reduces millions of research funds or micro-ages in the way subsidy money is spent. The red states, however, are in such a Thrall to the destruction by President Donald Trump of higher education and public spending that they have decided to embark on action. Welcome to the exciting world of the state departments of the DOGE, the DEI childcare dogs and reduced budgets – so that the Trump administration attacks colleges and universities is not enough.

In his quest continues to be a mini-top, the governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, was one of the governors of Create a state level Department of Government Efficiency. DESANTIS explained that it was necessary to “eliminate more waste within the government of the State, to save taxpayers’ money and to guarantee responsibility in Florida” and “would eliminate redundant advice and commissions, to examine the operations and university expenditure of the State and the costs, and even the drafting of artificial intelligence to further examine the agencies of the hidden waste, and even the Billaot.”

It does not seem to have come to the minds of Desantis that this is something super-pont to say about your own administration, where you have been in power since 2019. Why have you not done this from the start? Why do you need a new special working group to help you eliminate waste and save money? Were you bad before? Trump was able to claim that the efforts of Slash-et-Brûlure de Doge were necessary because the previous democratic administrations had installed unreserved hires of diversity and granted a series of inappropriate subsidies, but which can be blamed for the current state of the government of Florida except itself?

Anyway, Desantis was tirelessly In His attacks On the Florida state university system long before Trump took up his duties, so why not jump into the Doge train as a means of interrupting what was once considered one of the Leading public university systems in the country?

It is difficult to obtain a precise handle on the quantity of money that the universities of Florida have lost in the hands of federal Doges, thanks to a distinct lack of transparency and reliability. They are at least $ 80 million In the national subsidies of the National Health and National Sciences Foundation that have been dismissed, a small but vital $ 2.49 billion Florida Health Care subsidies canceled by the federal authorities.

Apparently, this is not enough for Desantis, so he has his own Doge who works hard, displaying an energy from Pick-Moi truly pathetic by have a tour of NSF that they missed a subsidy that should have been canceled. Thus, despite the fact that the federal government initially left things, Doge de Desantis is determined to guarantee that the University of Western Florida cannot grant scholarships funded by the NSF to teachers working on methods of sampling the quality of water because it is awakened. Rather than protecting state money, Desantis is ready to put it back, saying: “I think what the Trump administration does both kindergarten in the 12th year and higher education is trying to hold the line for mental health and restore mental health to our education system.”

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In Texas, the Republicans invade a different Trump movement: government surveillance Colleges and universities to ensure that there are no remains of diversity, equity or inclusion efforts. Texas GOP had already adopted a law prohibiting DEI, but they must ensure that schools do not make a decline. So now, the public universities of Texas will have a mediator, chosen by the governor, who has the power to recommend to the state legislature that public funds are cut in the schools it determines is “discriminating” with positive or diversity action programs. The guard dog has a power assignment for any dummy investigation which he chooses to undertake, essentially guaranteeing that the public universities of Texas will be content to be attacked by the government of the State.

It echoes the Trump administration has tried to impose at Harvard University and successful By forcing Columbia University to accept: Giving the government a surveillance role which destroys academic freedom.

Oklahoma also has its own Doge, and it attacks state universities and public health efforts earlier with the power of the bag. The state roots waste and fraud with genius movements such as refuse $ 157 million In federal public health subsidies, most of which aimed to strengthen state capacity to combat disease epidemics. And although employment in higher education in the state has fall regularly Over the past decade, the baby-doog of the Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt wants more. The first report published by Doge-Ok wishes “Reduce operational costs by rationalizing administrative functions, consolidating services and improving contractual negotiations.”

The governments of the red states have always been happy to attack universities, but Trump has made things go by at the next level. With 26 States After installing their own little Doges, it will not stop with Florida, Texas and Oklahoma.