Feds cut $1B mental health grants 

WASHINGTON The Trump administration is moving to cancel billion in school mental physical condition 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 wellbeing workers A new notice announced an Development Department review of the programs discovered they violated the purpose of civil rights law conflicted with the department s strategy of prioritizing merit and fairness and amounted to an inappropriate use of federal money The cuts were made constituents 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 vitality Rufo wrote The Development Department ratified the cuts In an update to members of Congress department leaders revealed the Republican administration will find other solutions to encouragement mental wellbeing The Department plans to re-envision and re-compete its mental physical condition initiative funds to more effectively backing students behavioral healthcare necessities 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 plan 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