And for what it's worth, people all over the country have legitimate reasons to be concerned about this, even it is only a 'temporary' pause of funding from tonight at 5pm to February 10.
In my corner of the world, 43,000 people across 22 counties in rural Appalachia will be impacted to varying degrees. That includes kids from low income families, pregnant women, elderly folks, people in recovery...the list goes on and on. And even with federal funding, some of the programs are considered underfunded. And that's just a sliver of what's going on in my state. People in every state are having these types of discussions. It's not time to panic yet, but the cause for concern is very, very real.
It's unclear how these federal grant funds will be vetted, but nearly all of them have class requirements in the federal application that include language that 1) was around before DEI was a thing and 2) could very much fall under the loose definition of DEI and 'woke' ideology. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater doesn't even begin to cover the potential outcome here.
