Close family member's scholarship grant was shut down today by Trump.

[Irish_Dem]

This person is working on a PhD and their general research area: mental health treatment of children
and adolescents.

There is a shortage of mental health practitioners for children and teens, and a strong
need for data based treatment.

Her scholarship is part of a federal grant tied to a specific study and would have helped with
tuition and college costs, etc.

All of it taken away today.

Everyone is in shock and scrambling today.

[spooky3]

1. Very sorry about this. I heard on the car radio that congressional offices

Are being flooded with calls from people adversely affected by this horseshit.

[Irish_Dem]

2. I wonder if that would help.

I was going to start making calls and sending emails.

I mean for god's sake. Stopping research to improve children's mental health treatment.

Another relative works in cancer research and is trying to get funding for next month
to preserve the studies already in progress.

Thank you for your comment and ideas.

[spooky3]

3. It could. I just received an email sent to everyone at the university

from which I retired. The Pres. of the university outlined how these EOs have affected multiple facets of functioning and what they’re doing in response. The implicit message is total and unnecessary upheaval. It’s outrageous.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Thank you.

I will be sending emails and making calls.
US senators are on my list.
Damn cowards.

[aggiesal]

14. On Deadline White House, one of the guest kept saying call your Congressperson & Senator ...

and tell your circumstances.

So, yes, I'm hoping calling will help.

[riversedge]

51. spectrum news out of Madison WI is also reporting lots of calls to legislatures because of this chaotic mess

created by Trump-and his administration.

[Initech]

5. He is such a fucking inhuman monster!

Fuck him and all that support him.

[Irish_Dem]

6. I know, cutting off funding for children's mental health treatment research.

[Initech]

7. That is just pure fucking evil!

I just want to say - "Hey MAGA, ha ha ha! You owned us! We're owned! Now stop it already and get the fuck out of our government, OK?"

[Irish_Dem]

8. The greedy billionaires destroyed mental health services decades ago.

They bought up all the mental health managed care companies, borrowed millions of dollars from
banks in loans, then ran the companies into the ground, refused to pay legitimate claims.
Many providers were driven out of practice.

The billionaires made a pretty penny destroying the field of mental health treatment,

This is why it is hard to find mental health professionals to deliver services.

The mental health field was just beginning to come back and recover.
Now Trump cuts off funding to universities who are training the professionals and doing research.

[FirstLight]

9. OMG that's awful!!! 😮

I cannot believe that any of this is being allowed. I'm gobsmacked. I'm so sorry for her, and I really hope that she's able to turn this around. And that were all able to stand up to this somehow...

[Irish_Dem]

11. I don't know.

She quit her job to go to grad school.
But has some reduced work hours.
She is trying to increase her workload and see if she can swing work and a PhD program.
The university is scrambling to find a few state dollars.

[FirstLight]

32. Do you mind if I ask which university?

I am going to Arizona State online thru the Tempe campus.

I don't know whay there's nnot a coalition of/for Universities to address legal issues like this!!!

[Irish_Dem]

33. I will pm you to get more info.

Thanks!

[LoisB]

10. This is terrible. They just don't care who they hurt.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Right, including the children who benefit from university research.

[aggiesal]

13. Whenever I hear a story like this, I first ask ''Who did they vote for?'' ...

I know I shouldn't and I'm sorry if this makes others upset, but I believe it's a valid question.

I'm hoping they didn't. Either way, we all will suffer under this unrelenting Authoritarian grab.

[Irish_Dem]

16. Person in question is solid total 100% Dem to her little toe.

[aggiesal]

19. That's good to hear, not that it should matter, but a lot of people are going to needlessly suffer because ...

of the idiot in the WH.

[aggiesal]

35. Maybe this might help and relieve some stress ...

Administration officials have said federal assistance to individuals would not be affected, including Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, student loans and scholarships.

[Irish_Dem]

36. This was a scholarship as part of a federal grant.

Often the case at the Ph.D. level.

Tenured professors get grants for their research and their students
can get scholarships from the grant to work on the grant research project.
These projects are big and need a lot of hands onboard.

But thanks I am going to find out more tomorrow.

[aggiesal]

38. So either there is a scholarship that does not deal with Federal dollars, so she shouldn't worry ...

Or there is a scholarship that does deal with Federal dollars, and based on Administration officials scholarships would not be affected. So she shouldn't worry.
I think it's a win-win situation.

Now, if her scholarship is piggy-backing on a Federal Grant, she might have issues, because there is no mention that Grants would not be affected.

Hope you hear good news tomorrow. Good Luck.

[Irish_Dem]

39. This is a scholarship attached to a federal grant for specific research.

The grant is officially gone today as are the scholarships associated with it.

It is not a win win for anyone.

It is a loss for the university, the kids who benefit from the research, and the mental health community.

[aggiesal]

42. I was hoping for a win. Sorry to hear this. ...

Let the lawsuits begin. Not that it would mean much now.

[Irish_Dem]

43. I don't think Trump will follow any court order.

But yes, some of the damage cannot be undone with a court order.

[allegorical oracle]

54. Yeah, my stepson got his PhD through a grant. He's in microbiology and had

supporting "mentors" who helped him out. Is that an avenue to pursue?

[Irish_Dem]

55. Yes of course, but now the mentors are all having their grants pulled.

And are under attack themselves.

[Passages]

15. The NSF includes numerous internships for a spectrum of people.

One example, Trump just shut down an internship designed for young people with autism interested in the tech field.
They then find appropriate jobs with support to make the leap to independence.

Pue evil.

[Irish_Dem]

17. Some of these programs will pay for themselves in the long run.

If handicapped people can earn a living, that is great for their self esteem
and independence. And they contribute to society and pay taxes etc.

So it is not about cost cutting for Trump.
It is about power, control and stealing money from the American people.

[Passages]

18. Yes. He is "delivering" clearing the swamp.

Infuriating because he and his cronies are the swamp, but here we are.

[Irish_Dem]

20. Evil is clearing out good.

Destroying anything decent and good.

[Passages]

22. Trump excels evil.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Yes sometimes psychopaths cross a line into pure evil.

Like Putin, Xi, Kin Jong UN.
Mussolini, Stalin.
Hitler.

[ananda]

21. I'm so sorry that happened.

Shock is the word of the week, for sure.

[OldBaldy1701E]

24. Not a surprise.

Most of that ilk consider mental health a 'made up excuse' for not being a proper wage slave.

Except when they are the ones using it. Then it is a 'trend'.

[Irish_Dem]

25. I am not surprised either.

The GOP has been trying hard to destroy mental health services for decades.
And it has worked, there is a severe shortage of psych professionals, especially for children.

[OldBaldy1701E]

29. Not for them or their children, just anyone else. (n/t)

[Irish_Dem]

31. Of course, the wealthy have everything they want.

Including abortion on demand for wives, kids, girlfriends.

[the nelm]

26. It would appear that Mr. Trump is carrying out his revenge crusade against...

everyone. Even the red hats. Apparently, they didn't "fight" hard enough for him.

Is this what you had in mind Mr. Roberts when you led the charge to give almost total immunity to a president? Even one with the maturity level of a 5-year-old? We're just over a week in and all hell and chaos is being unleashed. How's that whole "unitary executive" thing working out for you twits now? Is this what you had in mind? Letting a petulant child get his why, no matter the cost?

(Isn't there Stephen King novel about something like this?)

[AllyCat]

27. I'm so sorry.

[Irish_Dem]

30. Thanks.

We are a tough bunch in our family, we will survive Trump somehow.

[AllyCat]

37. My kid goes to a state university. The families FB is all

Abuzz about this today. Many students didn’t get their funding. Some still did. We are self-pay at the moment because late financial aid gave us …no financial aid. I feel badly for everyone else.

[Jim__]

28. Sorry to hear that.

[orangecrush]

34. K&R

[TheBlackAdder]

40. My daughter called me to say her doctorate environmental research grant was canceled.

[Irish_Dem]

44. You and I got the same phone call yesterday.

So sorry to hear about your daughter.
What is she going to do now?

She cannot fund the research for her dissertation?
She will have to go to Plan B if she can?
Or will she have to drop out?

[TheBlackAdder]

52. She's going Plan B

Dropping out of the doctorate program, as her's is a 5-year program and she's just finishing year two. She has 4 years of research work, but research work doesn't count in the job field. They want actual work. So, mission accomplished Republicans, as she was specializing in environmental plastics in soil and water and would have only been one of a handful in the country doing it.

MAGAts... enjoy your forever plastics. Oh, and MAGA... Fuck you and I hope your deaths are long and painful.

PS. Her professor is a Trump supporter who doesn't believe in Global Warming. He's lost his grants too! Fuck Him.

[Irish_Dem]

53. Oh no, BA, I am sorry to hear this.

So sad to hear this.

The billionaires and GOP do not want students doing research about toxins in our environment.
Her findings might cut into their profit margins.

And they don't want to waste money on mental health treatment for children.
Handicapped kids are useless eaters.

I hope karma is a real thing and these evil ones spend eternity in the nine circles of hell.

[Jit423]

41. Remember, Trump loves "the poorly educated" He said so. Trump and MAGAs like him despise education, truth, facts,

knowledge, wisdom, honesty, science and history. They despise anything their pea-size brains can't deal with and they hate people who have acquired knowledge and understanding that they will not or can not grasp. Therefore, the pursuit of knowledge and understanding is what they hate. They are happy with a bunch of dumb fucks who and little and question nothing. They idolize leaders whom they feel are as poorly educated as they themselves. Those among them who actually know better, use these idiots for their political and financial purposes.

During this Trump administration look for the punishment through denial of benefits, denial of services, denial of employment to anyone who may be even remotely associated with learning, research, teaching, and anyone in the pursuit of knowledge.

Making America Dumb Again is their purpose and cruelty is their method.

[Irish_Dem]

45. Defunding university research is a big blow to the university and society.

If professors cannot get their research funded, they cannot do the research.
The point of a PhD is to conduct original research and contribute to scientific knowledge.
If society doesn't want to pay for it, there will be no research.
There is no need for PhDs.

The US will lose its standing in the world as country with excellent universities,
and a strong science community.

[Hugin]

46. Shades of the Reagan Revolution...

Which I was personally horrifically impacted by, my life never turned out the way I thought it would growing up. I have been trying to catch up ever since to little avail.

It’s the same assholes at the helm. Same roadmap to nowhere.

My deepest sympathies and condolences to those who have been throat punched. It never gets any easier.

[Irish_Dem]

47. Thank you Hugin.

Yes once again the Regan evil is in charge.

And it is a blow to professors who spend their life contributing to the body of scientific knowledge.
The universities who provide educational opportunities.
And the students who work so hard to contribute to society.

And then of course in this case, the children who would have benefited from better clinical care.

Sorry to hear this happened to you in the 80's.

[Hugin]

48. It's a sure thing none of them have ever asked themselves...

“What’s in it for me?” They know.

[Irish_Dem]

49. I blame myself.

I always told my family that when they leave this planet they should leave it a bit better
than when they arrived.

Don't be a zero or a minus in life, be a plus. Make this planet a better place.

They took it to heart and are now being punished for this lesson I taught them.

I guess I should have told them to always look out for number one.
Screw the rest of the world.
They would then match the current American value system.

[Hugin]

50. That's still a valuable lesson.

Few know I’m as big or bigger psychopath than these creeps. I met myself coming the other way. That’s the “woke” terrifying the Trumpist.

You’ve done well in your teaching and it will be proven in the end.