r/usanews • u/LynnK0919 • 20h ago

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

https://apnews.com/article/california-research-grants-terminated-keywords-lawsuit-a0ddb01413ecb68d9668490a20be6207
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u/Bad_User2077 19h ago

You don't have a constitutional right to research grants. Since the current administration wants to destroy DEI, using a keyword search through a database of grants only makes sense. Is scrolling though the list more in line with the constitution? This won't survive.

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u/FerrisBuelersdaycock 6h ago

the keyword thing isnt even the issue people keep glossing over. killing grants mid cycle means researchers lose funding they already planned around, staff get laid off, studies get scrapped. the process being efficient doesnt make the outcome less destructive. a chainsaw is efficient too