WASHINGTON, D.C. (MPG) - Grants were the topic of House floor remarks delivered this week by Rep. Tom McClintock:  "Most of the stories we read every day about outrageous government waste stem from a category of government funding called “grants.”  From the $3 million grant to study how hamsters fight each other to the $3.7 million in grants given to the Wuhan virology lab that likely unleashed Covid upon the world -- these are the very essence of government waste..."

The remarks concluded with:  "So here’s a modest proposal for the DOGE boys: stop the cash bonanza to every self-described deserving cause and influential community with a good grant writer.  Budget writers and appropriators should look with extreme skepticism on every grant that awards money without results or that robs taxpayers in one community to pay for projects in another.  It is time we protected and reserved the federal treasury for the general welfare of the United States as our Constitution envisioned."