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- Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a memo to override holds and obligate $175 million from the Democracy Fund.
- The largest award, $40 million, went to a Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation consortium.
- A $5 million grant will build a “civilizational alliance” in Europe via research reform.
- One award funds a group advancing white Afrikaner rights in South Africa.
- Senator Jeanne Shaheen held $22 million of awards and warned the funds could be misused.