Democrats HATE free speech and the U.S Constitution and he spent $300 MILLION of our tax dollars to censor conservatives on the Internet.
This illegal waste of tax dollars was revealed by the watchdog group Open the Books which found the Biden government’s waste of the cash on so-called “misinformation” grants.
Misinformation-related grants actually stretch back to FY2017 during the first Trump presidency. $273 million has been awarded for grant proposals containing the term since then—but there was an explosion of cash during the years-long Covid malaise. The vast majority of that figure ($267 million) was for grants that began in 2021 or later.
An enormous year-over-year jump in new grants occurred between 2020 and 2021—from $2.2 million to $126 million as the federal government poured money out to address COVID-related “misinformation,” among other projects.
While spending has since slowed down, it is still far higher than it was pre-pandemic in 2020: $18.3 million in new grants began in FY 2024.
Grants mostly came from the Department of Health and Human Services ($185 million), followed by the National Science Foundation ($65 million), with the Department of State ($12 million) in a distant third. CHART: Click here for a breakdown of misinformation spending by agency.
An additional $17 million has awarded to misinformation-related contracts since 2020, and again, most of it ($12.5 million) was in FY 2021.
NEW: Mollie Hemingway rips the Biden administration for spending nearly $300 million to suppress speech.
"The Biden administration collectively spent $267 million to combat misinformation."
"Look at the increase in spending from 2017, when just $316,000 was spent on it. It… pic.twitter.com/YvkDpQxUGH
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 11, 2024
Open the Books has its full investigation at their site.
But this expenditure is only the costs of the grants. It does not include the millions wasted on the legal costs of defending Biden’s unconstitutional acts.
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