{"id":3057,"date":"2025-10-05T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2025-10-05T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:01:11","slug":"trump-administration-slashes-woke-school-programs-dei-and-lgbtq-funding-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=3057","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Slashes \u201cWoke\u201d School Programs \u2014 DEI and LGBTQ+ Funding Axed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security has begun cutting Biden-era programs tied to <strong>Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)<\/strong> and LGBTQ+ initiatives, marking one of the biggest rollbacks yet under Trump\u2019s new administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to DHS Secretary <strong>Kristi Noem<\/strong>, programs meant for counterterrorism had been \u201chijacked by activists\u201d and turned into \u201cpolitical training for children.\u201d The first to go was <strong>Invent2Prevent<\/strong>, once designed to prevent radicalization in schools, and now accused of promoting \u201csocial indoctrination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The administration also eliminated <strong>$18.5 million<\/strong> in DHS grants that funded DEI and LGBTQ+ nonprofits, including <strong>SMYAL<\/strong> and <strong>The Eradicate Hate Global Summit<\/strong>. Officials said the grants had \u201cnothing to do with extremism prevention \u2014 and everything to do with activism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservatives praised the move as a <strong>return to national security over ideology<\/strong>, while progressives condemned it as <strong>a direct attack on inclusion and civil rights<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supporters argue it\u2019s time to end government-funded \u201cwoke propaganda.\u201d Critics warn it will hurt marginalized students and silence progress made toward equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever the viewpoint, one thing is clear \u2014 this marks the start of a <strong>nationwide reset<\/strong> on DEI in education, signaling a sharp turn away from the policies of the last administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/read-more-3d-render-transparent-background-click-button-png-1-300x300-1fd.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2654\" style=\"width:20px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/read-more-3d-render-transparent-background-click-button-png-1-300x300-1fd.webp 300w, https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/read-more-3d-render-transparent-background-click-button-png-1-300x300-1fd-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security has begun cutting Biden-era programs tied to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and LGBTQ+ initiatives, marking one of the biggest rollbacks yet&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}