DOGE senator tells outdoors group to 'go fish' after discovering massive grant tied to high salaries

[rangerrebew]

 
DOGE senator tells outdoors group to 'go fish' after discovering massive grant tied to high salaries
Story by Charles Creitz • 14h

EXCLUSIVE: A top DOGE leader in the Senate is trying to reel in a massive federal grant from a nonprofit focused on promoting fishing, boating and outdoors she alleges is being used to pad executive salaries, a characterization the organization rejected.

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and her colleagues have been scouring federal grants for appearances of waste, fraud or abuse of taxpayer funds, and came upon a $27 million grant to the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation (RBFF).
 
More than $26 million of the grant had been paid out, and long-term figures showed RBFF received $164 million in funding since 2012, with nearly $13 million of that coming in 2024.

From the government website USA Spending, the grant’s purpose highlights RBFF’s "Take Me Fishing" consumer campaign that includes a social and digital media component, as well as ads on Walt Disney Company-branded streaming services and "mobile fishing units" that cater to urban communities and "underserved audiences."

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[Kamaji]

That is a good find.  WTF is the federal government doing spending that sort of money to incentivize fishing?  I'm not knocking fishing on its own merits, but it's not the sort of activity the government should be spending millions of dollars a year pimping for.

Now let's just make sure the grant is cancelled in accordance with the APA, so the organization cannot get the money reinstated.