{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/anti-woke-caucus-calls-transparency-department-education-spending", "Anti-Woke Caucus Calls for Transparency in Department of Education Spending", "2025-02-03", "2025", "2025-02", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Harriet M. Hageman", "H001096", "hageman.house.gov", "hageman", "https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC\u2014Congresswoman Harriet Hageman and the Anti-Woke Caucus sent Acting Secretary of Education Denise Carter a letter identifying wasteful and divisive federal education programs that misallocated over $1 billion toward radical ideological programs including DEI initiatives, Critical Race Theory, and other race-based education schemes. Among the most egregious examples, the Department of Education awarded millions for racially exclusive teacher recruitment programs and \u201cequity-centered\u201d curriculum development that prioritizes ideology over academic excellence, exclusionary professional development training, and \u201csocial-emotional\u201d learning instead of hard skills.\n\n\u201cMy colleagues and I urge Acting Secretary Carter to take immediate action in examining these harmful DEI programs and redirecting federal education funding toward policies that benefit all students,\u201d said Rep. Hageman. \u201cI applaud President Trump\u2019s swift action to halt the reckless DEI programs that have plagued federal agencies for far too long, especially when it comes to educating our children. The Anti-Woke Caucus will continue to support President Trump\u2019s efforts to scale back wasteful, counterproductive federal programs.\u201d\n\nNicki Neily, Executive Director, Parents Defending Education Action, stated, \u201cHe who pays the piper calls the tune\u2014and for the past four years, states, districts, and universities got the message loud and clear, submitting grant proposals that prioritized race-centered programming rather than addressing the needs of all students. This poison was encouraged by the Biden Administration from day one, and we are now seeing the results of this fiscal mismanagement through the most recent NAEP scores. America betrayed a generation of children who can barely read and write because activists and bureaucrats chose to fund DEI over ABCs, and as a country we will be grappling with this fallout for decades to come.\u201d\n\nOther signees from the Caucus include Representatives Glenn Grothman, Barry Moore, Josh Brecheen, Paul Gosar, Troy Nehls, and Lauren Boebert.\n\n###\n\nContact: Esteban Elizondo, Communications Director", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T17:38:04Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/anti-woke-caucus-calls-transparency-department-education-spending"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9991982951760292, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}