Why was the U.S. funding Australian universities? The Trump administration has pulled $600 million in U.S. taxpayer funding from seven universities in Australia. In response, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was urged to call an "emergency meeting" of the National Science and Technology Council. The Trump administration sent a questionnaire asking the universities if they could justify U.S. funding, whether they had also received funding from China, and whether they recognized only two sexes or embraced DEI. The response from Australia was mind-numbingly dumb. National Tertiary Education Union President Alison Barnes stated, "The [Aussie] federal government must push back on the Trump administration's blatant foreign interference in our independent research in the strongest possible terms." Wait — whose money was it in the first place?
