The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the federal government established in 1950. Its original mission was to promote the advancement of science and engineering through funding and support for research and education.

Nowhere in that mission statement do the words diversity, equity, or inclusion (DEI) appear. The NSF was intended to promote and support ground-breaking research and development that would help this nation (and perhaps all mankind as well). It was not intended to be a social welfare agency.

But in the Biden Administration’s push to foist DEI on this nation, a staggering amount of money has gone to promote this racialist travesty. The pace of funding distribution has increased exponentially: In 2021, only 0.29% of NSF grants funded DEI projects; by 2024, this increased to 27% of grants.

In its first week, the Biden-Harris administration mandated that all taxpayer-funded scientific research and development (R&D) must incorporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) values. Sen. Cruz’s investigation found that in response to this directive, NSF allocated over $2.05 billion to thousands of research projects that promoted neo-Marxist perspectives or DEI tenets...