The share of grants that contain woke terms awarded by the National Science Foundation has reportedly crashed from a high of more than a third under the Biden administration in 2022. Grants issued for projects that contain words related to DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) fell to 1990s levels — making up about 9 percent of the total — by the end of 2025, a trend that has likely continued this year.
The Washington Free Beacon used AI-assisted research to track the rise — and fall — of federal support toward institutional leftism in just this one agency, from almost nonexistent in 1990 to its peak in the post-racial reckoning of the early 2020s. The pattern at the NSF is likely one that has held across federal agencies, which are responsible for distributing and keeping tabs on the money Congress allocates to them.
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