Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) believes that teaching children about the solar eclipse is "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda." According to a database he released this week, just over $2 billion of the National Science Foundation's $9 billion budget went to "left-wing ideological crusades masked as 'academic research,'" as NPR reports. It's an absurd claim that highlights president Donald Trump's baffling attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatves across the entire US government, which has involved stamping out any mentions of women's achievements throughout history, threatening federal workers with "severe consequences" for failing to tattle on their peers, and even telling […]