U.S. NATIONAL DEBT
deals that have effectively made radical Rep. Hakeem Jef- fries, D-N.Y., the de facto majority leader. Most Americans understand that both parties have refused
to take the fiscal health of the nation seriously. Every annual appropriations cycle has been squandered with lawmakers — more beholden to K Street than their constituents — refusing to address spending in a manner that reflects the concerns and priorities of the American people. It doesn’t have to remain this way. Lawmakers can seize the moral high ground and focus the
American people’s attention on dismantling the “woke” and weaponized federal bureaucracy targeting them in Wash- ington, while simultaneously cutting off funding to the well- connected private entities that push these destructive policies and practices into the broader culture. As we have proven at the Center for Renewing America,
this effort will net significant fiscal savings while at the same time improve the lives of working Americans and families. Further, this approach rejects changes to Social Security
and reductions in Medicare benefits — both longtime shiny objects of ineffective spreadsheet budgeteers in D.C. — and instead focuses on increased participation in the labor force and reduced welfare dependency. It bears repeating that balance can be achieved by cutting
spending that is both “woke” and weaponized against the American people and not reducing Social Security retirement or Medicare benefits. That is a far more pragmatic approach and winnable
political argument than the hamster wheel of “entitlement reforms” the Washington cartel class counsels as necessary. Congress can neutralize these rogue agencies every year
during the annual appropriations process. It is purely a mat- ter of willpower and leadership. Across the federal bureaucracy, billions in discretionary
taxpayer spending help fund the “woke” neo-Marxist identi- tarianism that is poisoning our country and waging war on the American people. This hostility toward the American people has accelerated
under Joe Biden. Under his administration, the Department of Education is
basically the Department of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and radical gender theory in the nation’s schools. These ideologies are infused throughout the department’s bureaucracy and distributed in their various competitive grant programs, often under the guise of “culturally respon- sive learning” and “social emotional learning.” For example, the Biden administration has spent $60
million to set up regional equity assistance centers across the country to indoctrinate teachers in critical race theory and gender transition of minors. Most recently, the department issued new Title IX rules
requiring schools to eliminate separate spaces for boys and girls, enforce pronoun usage based on claimed gender identi- ty, and designate “misgendering” as “sex-based harassment.”
$34+ TRILLION $105,000 PER PERSON SOURCE:
usdebtclock.org; Congressional Budget Ofice
INCREASING BY $500 BILLION EVERY 100 DAYS
IN BILLIONS • FISCAL YEAR 2024
U.S. Spending More on Debt Than Defense
SOURCE: Congressional Budget Ofice
890 880 870 860 850 840 830 820 810 800 790
Defense Spending U.S. National
Interest Payments on the U.S. National Debt
The rules will force girls to compete against biological boys
in sports. The rules go beyond school settings and require doctors to practice so-called “gender-affirming care,” a pro- tocol that blocks puberty, provides opposite-sex hormones, and often culminates in the genital mutilation of vulnerable children. This emphasis on “woke” dogma at the Department of Education plays directly into the administration’s broader Evidence Agenda — an initiative launched by the White House last year to infuse radical gender theory into empirical data collection and studies overseen by federal agencies such as the Census Bureau, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Social Security Administration. The Biden White House’s Justice40 Initiative permeates
nearly all agencies and departments as well, corralling 40% of the hundreds of billions spent on green initiatives toward “marginalized” low-income communities, thereby increasing the costs of housing, energy, and living for the very people it claims to help in the name of climate zealotry. Indeed, the administration’s climate change obsession is unending: $7.5 billion for electric vehicle charging stations — despite
only seven stations built in two years; $3 billion in Environmental Protection Agency “environ-
mental justice” grants to leftist nonprofits; $27 billion for a “green bank” to finance clean energy proj-
ects, and the latest Biden request, a: $7.5 billion boondoggle for new “affordable” climate-resil-
ient housing projects administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Even entities like the National Science Foundation get
in on the “woke” spending, mainly in the form of grants to the higher education bureaucracy to further propagate the ideology. For example, Allegheny College received $1.4 million to “increase diversity” in STEM (science, technology, engineer-
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