{"id":43809,"date":"2021-11-23T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43809"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:03:12","slug":"reversing-a-policy-that-punished-bad-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43809","title":{"rendered":"Reversing A Policy That Punished Bad Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about another Trump administration policy reversed by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Biden administration quietly reversed a Trump-era decision halting conservation grants being used to indirectly fund human rights atrocities in Central Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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While the administration hasn\u2019t publicly acknowledged the change, Department of Interior officials confirmed it during a private briefing with House Natural Resources Committee minority staff in October, a spokesperson for Ranking Member Bruce Westerman told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), a group that relies on U.S. tax dollars to fund international conservation efforts, noted<\/a> that previously frozen funds had been awarded with \u201csocial safeguards\u201d and implemented on the ground, in a statement to lawmakers earlier this year.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Eco-guards hired by WCS and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and funded through the Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE), had allegedly committed horrific atrocities including rape, torture and murder stretching back a decade, a March 2019 Buzzfeed News investigation<\/a> found. In one alleged incident, guards beat and raped four women, including two who were pregnant, and in another incident, three men were hung by their penises from a tree branch by the guards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was my conclusion that the federal agencies simply did not have the means and the practical ability to ensure that the money that they gave wouldn\u2019t go to parties who would commit grave and horrific crimes,\u201d Former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt \u2014 who left the department in January after leading it for two years \u2014 told the DCNF in an interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd as a result of that, I was not comfortable with this approach,\u201d he continued. \u201cApparently, the Biden administration is.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following the Buzzfeed reports, Bernhardt ordered<\/a> $12.3 million in CARPE program funds to be frozen in September 2019 and initiated an internal investigation into how wildlife grants were awarded to groups operating in Central Africa. One year later, the Interior Department (DOI) doubled down<\/a> on its decision to halt funds, saying no further CARPE funding would be awarded to wildlife organizations until proper controls were put in place, according<\/a> to an internal agency memo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

American tax dollars should not be funding any group that engages in the sort of behavior these groups engaged in, regardless of their cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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