The Department of Government Efficiency cancelled $163 million in NEH grants.

Surely those grants were crucial to the survival of America, right?

Nope.

Those grants include $350,000 for LGBTQ+ cartoonist research and $247,000 to digitize trans stories. (Why? Just tell those paper books to identify as digital. Draw a microchip on the cover. Problem solved.)

There’s more. Projects like interactive gay travel guides got cancelled. Don’t they have enough apps for that sort of thing?

Does anyone else feel like DOGE is deleting unnecessary spending similar to deleting unused apps on your phone that just take up space, make it run slow and sluggish, and secretly collect your data?

Then once you delete all those apps, your phone runs smooth and quick like before.

DOGE is a true godsend.

BRAVO DOGE! Axing NEH grants for LGBTQ + cartoonist research
& gay travel guides— Saving tax payers -> $163M pic.twitter.com/KNUsfUyHpL

— AGNEWSLIVE (@AMErikaNGIRLLL) May 24, 2025

Breitbart reports:

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has much work underway, announcing the cancellation of several Biden-era grants that were going toward bizarre and wasteful causes, such as research on LGBTQ+ cartoonists and gay travel guides.

“During the previous administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the following grants to spend taxpayer dollars, all of which have been cancelled,” DOGE wrote on social media, noting that these cancellations have resulted in an overall savings of $163 million.

A $350,000 NEH grant, for instance, was for “interactive gay travel guides to better understand historical LGBTQ+ spaces.” Another grant to the tune of $247,000 was set to “digitize stories of transgender adults in the Pacific Northwest.”

A $60,000 grant was allotted to “research how LGBTQ+ cartoonists innovated comics in the 1980s & 1990s,” and $75,000 was to “examine the relationship between internet live streaming and LGBTQ+ communities.”

Not all grants were LGBTQ centered, however. One grant, coming in at $150,000, was for “excavation of Egypt’s first industrial-scale brewery.” And another $350,000 grant was for creating “a Spanish version of http://Homosauras.org (https://en.homosaurus.org).”

“NEH grants will be merit-based and awarded to non-DEI, pro-America causes,” DOGE affirmed.

Resist The Mainstream adds:

DOGE reports total savings of approximately $170 billion across multiple departments since it began operations.

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These savings amount to roughly $1,055.90 per U.S. taxpayer, a significant reduction in government waste.

According to DOGE’s savings leaderboard, the Department of Health and Human Services leads in cost-cutting efforts.

Following HHS are the General Services Administration and the Department of Education, which have also generated substantial savings.

On the lower end of savings are the Department of Veterans Affairs, NASA, and the Department of Transportation.

DOGE’s mission is to ensure taxpayer dollars are spent efficiently and projects align with national interests.

The agency continues to review federal spending with a focus on eliminating unnecessary or politically motivated expenditures.

This move signals a shift away from identity-focused grants toward more traditional and merit-based humanities projects.

DOGE’s cancellation of these LGBTQ+ related grants reflects an emphasis on fiscal responsibility and government accountability.

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