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MSG Stan Hutchison
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"Biden just ENDED Trump's $250 million in annual aid to the United Negro College Fund! "

Not true:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-uncf-funding-copypasta/
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SPC Kevin Ford
SPC Kevin Ford
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You beat me to it!
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MAJ Montgomery Granger
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SP5 Dennis Loberger
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Actually funding request increased by $247 million
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SPC Kevin Ford
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I'd say you shouldn't believe everything you read on social media without checking to see if it is true.

"We found no evidence of any truth to this claim. It appears to be a case of a rumor spread by way of copypasta — text forwarded via social media platforms by people copying and pasting it from profile to profile.

We reached out to UNCF to ask about the meme. Lodriguez Murray, senior vice president of public policy and government affairs told us that there is no truth to it.

Murray pointed out that UNCF is a private, nonprofit organization and as such, receives money from private donors, not the federal government. Instead, UNCF advocates the federal government. He also pointed out that federal funding is the purview of Congress, not the executive branch."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-uncf-funding-copypasta/#:~:text=In%20early%20February%202021%2C%20social%20media%20users%20shared,and%20universities%20%28HBCUs%29%20over%20the%20next%2010%20years.
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SPC Kevin Ford
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This is where it is coming from. There was a 2019 bill to aid HBCUs and not the UNCF.

"President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bipartisan bill that will permanently provide more than $250 million a year to the nation’s historically black colleges and universities, along with dozens of other institutions that serve large shares of minority students."

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/19/donald-trump-signs-hbcu-funding-bill/

It should be noted that there was a Democratic controlled house at the time so this isn't 100% Republican doing.

Biden asked for a lot more to be given to HBCUs in his budget proposal, but that was knocked out by a Democratic Congress. It is still unclear to me if HBCU funding is higher or lower in 2021 than it had been previously when Trump was in office.
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MAJ Montgomery Granger
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