Feds cut $1B mental health grants 

WASHINGTON The Trump administration is moving to cancel billion in school mental soundness grants saying they reflect the priorities of the previous administration Grant recipients were notified this week that the funding will not be continued after this year A gun violence bill signed by Democratic President Joe Biden in sent billion to the grant programs to help schools hire more psychologists counselors and other mental wellness workers A new notice explained an Teaching Department review of the programs detected they violated the purpose of civil rights law conflicted with the department s approach of prioritizing merit and fairness and amounted to an inappropriate use of federal money The cuts were made populace in a social media post from conservative strategist Christopher Rufo who claimed the money was used to advance left-wing racialism and discrimination He posted excerpts from several grant documents setting goals to hire certain numbers of nonwhite counselors or pursue other diversity equity and inclusion policies No more slush fund for activists under the guise of mental physical condition Rufo wrote The Mentoring Department proven the cuts In an update to members of Congress department representatives stated the Republican administration will find other approaches to promotion mental robustness The Department plans to re-envision and re-compete its mental wellness effort funds to more effectively help students behavioral wellbeing requirements according to the notice President Donald Trump s administration has cut billions of dollars in federal grants deemed to be related to DEI and has threatened to cut billions more from schools and colleges over diversity practices The administration says any framework that treats people differently because of their race amounts to discrimination and it argues that DEI has often been used to discriminate against white and Asian American students