Minority Business Development Agency

Mm-hmm.

Richard Nixon, as he's developing the Minority Business Development Agency at that time, and then NMSDC, this or my organization came out of MBDA.

That's right.

He understood if you wanna get people out of the streets, yelling, protesting, you gotta give them something to fight for.

And so we had dropped the ball on some of that, if I'm being very honest with you about that, and we have to do a better job.

And I think if you look across the board, our traditional chambers of commerce, our traditional civil rights organizations, we are using this opportunity to sharpen our, our tools, uh, our knives, and, and, and to build a better tool, uh, box for the future.

Well, I mean, again, you, we talked at the top about how the, you know, Minority Business Development Agency kind of, you know, Development Council was born-

Yes

$28 million from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which funds healthcare research.

$10 million from the Minority Business Development Agency.

About $9 million from a program that allows certain foreign countries to reduce debt owed to the United States in exchange for funding conservation products.

and then another $5 million from HHS's Office of Minority Health, which funds and coordinates programs that are aimed at improving health outcomes among racial and ethnic minority populations and American Indian and Alaska native populations, things like chronic disease prevention, maternal health programs, health education, training for health care providers, things of that nature.

Oh, boy.

Um, today President Trump used a pocket rescission to zero out congressionally approved funds for the, from the Minority Business Development Agency, which makes grants to business owners, and from the HHS Office of Minority Health.

So guess what's coming?

Oh, yeah.

An attempt by the Trump administration to dismantle three federal agencies may be held up in court.

A U.S. appeals court in Massachusetts appeared skeptical Wednesday about dismantling the Minority Business Development Agency, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.

A Department of Justice lawyer argued that a lower court judge had wrongly blocked the administration's actions affecting the three agencies.

The appeals court said the agencies weren't congressionally created and claimed the administration was trying to avoid judicial review.

But the museum is not here to manage feelings.

It's there to tell history, and they're like, "That is what we are going to do, people." Meanwhile, the Trump administration is trying to dismantle three federal agencies, including the Minority Business Development Agency.

But a federal appeals court is questioning whether the president can even shut down those agencies created by Congress.

And real quick, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation is marking its 50th anniversary in DC.