Protecting Local Grants Act Interview

Members of Congress have introduced a resolution, a legislation they say is gonna prevent the politicization of the federal grant process. Joining us live now is Representative Haley Stevens, one of the Members of Congress to introduce the act.

“We’ve seen some continued overreaches from the current administration, particularly out of the Office of Management and Budget. They put together a pretty aggressive, what we call rulemaking, around federal grants that are gonna really impact, what’s really gonna impact Michigan.”

“As a political appointee myself in the Obama Administration, I worked in the Economic Development Administration, which was a grantmaking office. But I had nothing to do with the actual decisions that went around grants.”

“Let’s ensure that the experts, the methodology, the non-political process that goes into federal grantmaking is preserved.”

“The very first bill that I ever got signed into law was called the Building Blocks of STEM Act. And that was for grant programs for K-12 Education out of the National Science Foundation… Guess what I woke up to last year from this administration? That they were just out of nowhere canceling all the STEM grants out of the National Science Foundation.”

“I want to see schools, whether you’re in Detroit or Sturgis, be able to have shop class and STEM education and getting our students access to the skills that they need.”

“This politicization is just more chaos that is disruptive to Michigan, our workforce goals, and training the next generation to win the future.”