[FoxNews] A public unions expert told Fox News Digital the NEA spends less than 10% of its budget on 'representational activities'
Amid a trend of declining membership since the Supreme Court struck down mandatory union dues, the nation’s two largest teachers’ unions have poured tens of millions into left-wing causes, a new report finds from a conservative watchdog group.
The national nonprofit group, Defending Ed, released a report this week after combing through the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers' contributions to left-wing and far-left groups. The nonprofit found that the two unions spent a combined $43.5 million since 2022 to help fund state and federal political action committees and other ideologically left-wing entities, such as D.C. think tanks.
"It is clear that the teachers unions’ priorities are advancing far-left politics and radical social justice issues, not the education of children," Defending Ed researcher Rhyen Staley told Fox News Digital. "This is a slap in the face to families and teachers who want to focus on helping students improve their reading and math skills. It is time that Congress acts to stop this obscene redistribution of public monies to advance left-wing identity politics."
Left-wing philanthropic behemoths like the Tides Network, New Venture Fund, Sixteen-Thirty Fund, and Future Forward, the last of which was the main Super PAC supporting Kamla Harris' 2024 presidential run after former President Joe Biden dropped out, all received a combined nearly $1.5 million from the unions, according to the report.
The unions also forked over significant amounts of cash for groups that focus on supporting left-wing candidates for public office, such as the Democratic Governors Association, Democrat's House Majority and Senate Majority PACs.
Other groups they have donated to include major left-wing think tanks like the Center for American Progress and its 501(c)(4) arm, which received close to a million dollars since 2022 from the two unions.
Aaron Withe, an expert on public-sector unions, pointed out that the National Education Association spends less than 10% of its budget on what he called "representational activities," while, at the same time, the union spends 38% of its budget on contributions to left-leaning groups, lobbying and political gifts.
"You’d think in light of the decline in union membership in recent years, that they’d start providing value to members that outweighs the cost of membership," Withe told Fox News Digital. "Instead, they are appeasing the radical base of union members by advocating for men in women’s sports, transitioning minors, antisemitism and other radical ideological stances."
He added that this is just "the tip of the iceberg" too "when you consider that there are thousands of statewide and city and county teachers unions that are mostly funding the same causes."
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Always "just about to happen."
No arrests, no trials, no convictions and no prison sentences.
Theater to keep the morons distracted from Epstein and where his trail leads.
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/\ "Always "just about to happen."
No arrests, no trials, no convictions and no prison sentences. Theater to keep the morons distracted from Epstein and where his trail leads."
Concur with Jairong. We're well into the second decade of justice successfully avoided. The theater continues. My expectations for justice are quite low indeed.
Disappointing? Yes, of course. Surprising? Obviously not.
[NY Post] Deadlines and rules are for Little People™
Absentee Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t just MIA in her own district — her mandatory 2024 financial disclosure documents were also missing for months.
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was among lawmakers who asked for a 90-day extension when they first came due back in May, but she then missed the second deadline, The Post has learned.
The socialist lawmaker finally filed Wednesday, a week late.
The socialist lawmaker reported she has somewhere between $17,000 and $81,000 in bank accounts and owes $15,000 to $50,000 in student loans. The federal filings list finances in ranges.
Among her assets, the "Squad" member listed $15,000 to $50,000 in a savings account and $1,000 to $15,000 in a checking account.
BREAKING: President Trump just canceled $32 million for materials to fix roads and bridges in Massachusetts.
If Donald Trump really wants to bring back manufacturing jobs and boost American leadership, this is the wrong move. I urge the Trump Administration to reconsider.
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Some district judge will overturn the decision even though the suit should go to claims court because that’s the scam.
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Unless it's for US Route x, let Mass. pay for it. They certainly pay enough taxes up there (tax deductible on federal returns, if eligible, by the way).
[X] President Donald Trump has escalated his feud with California Governor Gavin Newsom, accusing him of incompetence in handling the slow recovery from the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles. During a White House briefing, Trump praised federal efforts for issuing permits quickly while criticizing Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass for bureaucratic delays, potentially jeopardizing preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Newsom fired back on social media, defending his executive orders to cut red tape and aid fire victims, amid broader tensions over state sovereignty and disaster response.
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His wife’s newly formed NGO took in $50M in donations. I expect her salary will be $45M. Need to leave some cash to cover her expense reimbursements.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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