Trump's allegations: Biden administration spent $8 million to make mice transgender, $10 million on circumcisions

2025-03-05 18:17:37Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Trump's allegations: Biden administration spent $8 million to make mice
Trump during the speech

US President Donald Trump spent several minutes of his speech before Congress to compile a list that he said explained how the Biden administration had wasted American taxpayer money.

“Thank you Elon, he works very hard ,” Donald Trump said, before pointing a finger at the Democrats in the chamber. “Everybody here, even this side, appreciates it, I think. They just don’t want to admit it.”

Musk heads DOGE, the Department for Government Efficiency.

According to the US president, this department has discovered that the Biden administration spent $8 million on experiments that "turned mice into transgender" and also raised questions about $8 million spent to promote LGBTQI+ in the African country of Lesotho, "which no one has ever heard of."

However, CNN, after a "fact-check", reports that the US president's statement about transgender mice is not true.

As CNN reports, between fiscal years 2021 and 2022, the National Institutes of Health awarded a total of $477,121 to three projects that involved administering feminizing hormone therapy to monkeys to understand how it might affect their immune systems and make them more susceptible to the HIV virus.

"Feminizing hormone therapy is a gender-affirming treatment used to block the effects of the male hormone, testosterone, and promote feminine characteristics in transgender women. Transgender women are nearly 50 times more likely to be infected with HIV than other adults, according to a 2013 study in 15 countries, including the U.S. It's not clear where the $8 million figure came from ," CNN writes.

TRUMP'S FULL STATEMENT:

$22 billion from the Department of Health and Human Services to provide free housing and cars to illegal immigrants.

$45 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma.

$40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. No one knows what that means.

$8 million to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which no one has ever heard of.

$60 million for the empowerment of indigenous and Afro-Caribbean populations in Central America. $60 million.

$8 million to make transgender mice – that's true.

$32 million for a left-wing propaganda operation in Moldova.

$10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique.

$20 million for the Arabic version of "Sesame Street" in the Middle East. $20 million for one program.

$1.9 billion for a new committee to decarbonize homes, led by – and we know who’s involved – at the last minute the money was passed to a woman named Stacey Abrams. Have you ever heard of her?

$3.5 million for a consulting contract for luxury fish monitoring.

$1.5 million for voter confidence in Liberia.

$14 million for social cohesion in Mali.

$59 million for hotel rooms for illegal immigrants in New York City. A real estate businessman is behind this, he made a lot of money.

$250,000 to scale up local vegan climate innovation in Zambia.

$42 million for social and behavioral change in Uganda.

$14 million to improve public procurement in Serbia.

$47 million to improve learning outcomes in Asia. Asia is doing really well in learning, you know what? Maybe we need these funds ourselves.

$101 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion contracts at the Department of Education – the largest amount ever paid, there has been nothing that comes close.

Under the Trump administration, all of these scams – and there are worse ones – but I didn't think it was appropriate to talk about them, will be eliminated. They are so terrible. Many more have been discovered and exposed, and they have been eliminated rapidly by a group of very intelligent, mostly young people, led by Elon, and we appreciate that. We have uncovered hundreds of billions of dollars in scams.

And we've brought this money back, we've reduced the debt to fight inflation and for many other issues - we've gotten a lot of this money back. We caught it at the right time. And this is just the beginning.

 


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