At least $1 billion has been spent on DEI in public schools since 2021.

In this episode, we speak with a parent activist about how those tax dollars are being spent

and what to expect from the incoming Trump administration.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley, and this is a special edition

of Morning Wire.

Joining us to discuss the massive DEI spending spree in K-12 public schools is Nikki Neely,

president and founder of Parents Defending Education.

Nikki, thanks for coming on.

Thank you for having me.

So I wanted to bring you on to talk about this $1 billion of Department of Education spending

that's gone on over the past three or four years that's going to DEI specifically.

What do we know about this grant?

Yes, this was tons of grants over the four-year period of the Biden administration

running the show. You'd think that the Department of Education would fund programs that actually

educate children, but frighteningly, this Department of Education under the Biden-Harris administration

has actually been funding programs that hurt students. You know, the fact that there have been

all these studies showing that DEI programs actually increase friction between people, start to lead to increased hostility

between groups, is mind-boggling that our federal government has literally been lighting money

on fire. And so the government of education has not been making up learning loss. They have

actually been making things worse for American children. So it's a real slap in the face. Now put in context this $1 billion, is this a drop in the bucket for what the Department of

Education normally spends, or is this a pretty significant line item? It's pretty significant. I mean,

the past couple years have been a little bit of an anomaly because we have the post-COVID money that

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