▲ 155 ▼ Trump Wants $3 Billion in Harvard Grants Redirected to Trade Schools (www.nytimes.com) submitted 1 year ago by DragonSidedD@lemmy.ml to c/world@lemmy.world 35 comments fedilink hide all child comments the president mused about redirecting $3 billion in research grant funding that his administration has frozen or withdrawn
[–] DragonSidedD@lemmy.ml [S] 76 points 1 year ago* (2 children) It plays to his anti-intellectual base: "See? We are finally pw0ning those effete libs and putting the money into the trades." (You know you could put a lot of people through trade school for the cost of one big military parade, and not have to give up f'ing cancer research) permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Hell you could take double what Hartford gets, out of the military budget and put that into trades and the military would hardly notice. If my math is correct, 6 billion is not even 0.75% of the military's budget from last year. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SpongyAneurism@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* Yet it doesn't occur to them to have DOGE check wether that money is spent responsibly. Wonder why. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago We just randomly increased military spending by 150 BILLION this year. That could have paid for a lot of trade schools permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Hell you could take double what Hartford gets, out of the military budget and put that into trades and the military would hardly notice. If my math is correct, 6 billion is not even 0.75% of the military's budget from last year. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SpongyAneurism@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* Yet it doesn't occur to them to have DOGE check wether that money is spent responsibly. Wonder why. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SpongyAneurism@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* Yet it doesn't occur to them to have DOGE check wether that money is spent responsibly. Wonder why. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago We just randomly increased military spending by 150 BILLION this year. That could have paid for a lot of trade schools permalink fedilink source parent