In November, a report was released by the government watchdog organization OpenTheBooks.com proving the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had spent roughly $39 million on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs throughout the Biden-Harris administration. And yet, this number now pales in comparison to an even newer report that found the Department of Justice (DOJ) put over $100 million toward the same agenda.

The research was conducted by the group Parents Defending Education (PDE). The details of their investigation have a few noteworthy discoveries, according to The Daily Wire who obtained the report. Some of the findings include the fact “that the Biden DOJ awarded over $100,113,942 through 102 grants, throughout 36 states, impacting 946 school districts and upwards of 3 million K-12 students. Those funds were spent on proposals promoting restorative justice practices, social and emotional learning practices, and diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in the classroom over the past four years.”

PDE’s research dug into the semantics of exactly what this money went toward. The Minnesbiden-ota Department of Education reportedly put nearly $2 million into creating “safe learning environments where practices of anti-racism and anti-oppression are embedded.” Bowling Green State University in Ohio spent the same amount on “mental health curriculums,” including “mindfulness meditation, yoga, and knitting circles.” Over $1.7 million went to a Penn State project designed to help decrease cyberbullying, but it was specially geared toward “People of Color (POC), women, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ community.”

Similarly, the DOJ granted the California-based organization Reach Out West End $1 million to increase safety by focusing “on LGBTQIA+ issues aligned with SB 857, mental/behavioral health, substance use prevention and/or conflict mediation.” Wisconsin was awarded just under $1 million, which was put toward partnerships with groups such as “Courageous Conversations about Race, Crisis Prevention Institute, Your Move MKE, Marquette University Peace Works, and SKY Schools” to “promote racial equity.”

It turns out much of these funds were awarded through the DOJ’s STOP School Violence Program, which is supposed “to be used to address and ameliorate school violence,” PDE President Nicki Neily told DW. Violence “has been a major issue of concern to parents across the country over the past several years,” she added. Considering this, Neily finds it “appalling, although not surprising, that DOJ bureaucrats would prioritize DEI initiatives over student safety. American families deserve better, and the sooner waste like this is eliminated, the better.”

In light of eliminating these kind of programs, a large part of President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was his promise “to cut federal funding for schools pushing radical gender ideology on kids.” And given his landslide victory in November, a vast majority of Americans are on board with that objective.

As Family Research Council’s Meg Kilgannon told The Washington Stand, “These grants are the kind of government spending that offends taxpayers and parents. The idea that racialized and sexualized training for teachers is going to reduce violence in schools is a problem long before it is showered with $100,000,000 in federal funding. Many of these grants require the hiring of school staff to specialize in ‘school climate’ which grows the DEI staff in schools at a time when the public and parents are rightly increasingly skeptical of such efforts.” She added, “This funding is being offered nearly eight years after the shooting in Broward County, Florida. In that case, we know that restorative justice practices and federal meddling created an environment where a school shooter was far from prevented or discouraged.”

Frankly, Kilgannon pointed out, “There are many problems with this funding, but one of the biggest might be the left-wing edu-crats’ myopic obsession with identity politics being incentivized by taxpayer dollars. When school violence is not decreased by these programs, too many will insist it’s because there was not enough money — rather than wondering if the problem might be the breakdown of the family, glorified violence in entertainment, or the devaluing of the human person by systemic violence against children in the womb.”