FACT CHECK: Did Elon Musk Pull Funding From Tractor Supply?
A post shared on social media purports that Tesla CEO Elon Musk pulled funding from Tractor Supply Co. after they announced a diversity, equity and inclusion plan. Verdict: False The claim stems from a satirical website. Fact Check: Musk recently endorsed former President Donald Trump for president, pledging $45 million a month to the cause, Fox Business reported. This […]
Mort Zuckerman Cuts Off Funding to Columbia over Antisemitism
Billionaire philanthropist Mortimer “Mort” Zuckerman this week suspended his funding for Columbia University over its perceived failure to address anti-Semitism and anti-Israel extremism on campus since October 7. Washington Free Beacon report: Mortimer Zuckerman, the billionaire philanthropist, cut off millions of dollars in funding to Columbia University, citing the university’s failure to address rising anti-Semitism. […]
House GOP’s tanked vote signals tough path ahead on funding
House Republicans’ rejection this week exposed intraparty divisions over spending and highlighted the challenges GOP leadership faces in its ambitious plan to pass all 12 annual budget bills by the end of the month. Republicans were caught off guard Thursday when 10 of their own party members voted with most Democrats to reject a GOP-drafted […]
Top Dem plots tying SCOTUS funding to ‘enforceable’ ethics code amid Thomas, Alito controversies
The Senate’s top appropriations official is considering excluding Supreme Court operating funds from the fiscal 2025 spending bill and forcing the court to enforce ethics rules to access that money, following controversy over the political activities of the wives of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito and gifts given to the justices by wealthy friends. […]
Senate negotiators unanimously pass first batch of government funding bills for fiscal 2025
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday passed the first wave of fiscal 2025 government budget proposals, authorizing hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending for much of next year. The bill lays out annual budget proposals for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and the […]
Sen. Rand Paul proposes legislation to create security board to review and approve funding for ‘high-risk life sciences research’
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday Risk Research Review ActThe bill would create an independent national security committee to review and approve “high-risk life sciences research” projects seeking federal funding. This first-of-its-kind proposal would create a Life Sciences Research Security Board within the executive branch, responsible for providing “oversight of life sciences research funding across […]
The Abortion Access Amendment Is Getting Most Of Its Funding From Outside Arizona
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s bad enough that the abortion lobby is fully committed to its disturbing agenda to enshrine abortion up until birth in the Arizona Constitution. But now, it appears, that the overwhelming majority of the funding to get this measure on our ballot in November isn’t even coming from within our […]
Biden’s Hollywood donors in a ‘panic’ after debate, threaten to cut off funding
Actor Dennis Quaid, who endorsed Donald Trump, joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss the state of the Democratic Party after Biden’s … source
A Reckoning May Be Coming for Universities on Foreign Funding
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The sword of Damocles hanging over much of what the new GOP-led House is planning to investigate in any number of coming hearings – everything from COVID origins to tech/government collusion – is the influence of the Communist Party of China. And why wouldn’t it be? Now that President Biden’s […]
Damon Lindelof calls on Biden to drop out of race, asks donors to withhold funding
Damon Lindelof, a Hollywood showrunner and longtime Democratic donor, Deadline article He called on President Biden to resign and urged Democrats to “stop” funding candidates who need to drop out of the race. “My name is Damon Lindelof,” he wrote. “I am a lifelong Democrat and I love our complex and wonderful country. I am […]