From NY Post: President Trump’s budget office is instructing the Department of Transportation and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to claw back more than $1.5 billion from blue states on grounds the money was being mishandled, officials told The Post.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) told the DOT Wednesday to cancel more than $943 million, while the CDC was ordered to nix at least $602 million meant for California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota.
An OMB spokesperson said that the states were being targeted for “waste and mismanagement” of taxpayer funds.
Illinois was set to receive a $100 million grant for EV charging stations.
The health care money was intended to be used to fund research on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives and transgender medicine research.
It was cut because it was “not in line with administration policy,” according to White House officials.
Read more at NY Post
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