The internal department cancels a fishery promotion subsidy of $ 26 million after examination of the Senate Doge

EXCLUSIVE: A multi -year subsidy to a non -profit organization in the Washington region focused on the promotion of fishing, pleasure and outdoor navigation activities was canceled by the interior department after the leadership of the Senate Doge reported the original Fox News Digital report to the agency of the Cabinet.

More than $ 26 million has already been paid – in addition to $ 164 million since 2012 – to the Recreational Navigation and Fishing Foundation (Rbff), based in Alexandria, Virginie.

Of the government’s website American expensesThe objective of the subsidy highlights RBFF’s “Take Me Fishing” consumption campaign which includes a social and digital media component, as well as advertisements on Walt Disney brand streaming services and “mobile fishing units” which are aimed at urban communities and “bad audiences”.

At least $ 40.5 million will be saved in the short term, Senate Doge Caucus told Fox News Digital, citing the interior response.

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President Trump and Doug Burgum; Red snap, right (Reuters)

“Today’s capture of the day is Washington Waste,” said the president of the Senate Doge Caucus, Joni Ernst, R-Iowa.

“I am proud to have exposed the inflated general costs and I worked with the secretary Burgum to ensure that the taxes collected to stimulate fishing are not siphoned in the pockets of smooth consultants based on DC.”

“There is more pork in the sea, and I will continue to fish!”

The Burgum office has given a similar tone, saying that the agency is attached to tax responsibility, efficiency and responsibility – while fully supporting the marina, fishing and outdoor navigation industries.

A spokesperson for the agency, who oversees the National Park Service which provides points of sale to all the above, said that “under the direction of President Donald J. Trump, we make sure that each dollar taxpayers serves a clear and aligning objective on our main mission”.

“Following an examination of discretionary expenses, the ministry determined that the use of this particular subsidy (RBFF) had not demonstrated sufficient alignment on the objectives of the program or responsible management of taxpayers,” said Charlotte Taylor.

The subsidy, largely funded by excise taxes on fishing posts, has become a meticulous examination when Ernst discovered an RBFF contract with Disney worth $ 1.99 million more hundreds of “SEO Consulting” and $ 5 million to a development agency for the creative media in Minnesota. Several RBFF leaders are paid in the middle of $ 100,000 in UP.

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Senator Joni Ernst is president of Doge Caucus. (Reuters)

In a part of a long response to the cancellation of the subsidy, RBFF officials told Fox News Digital that the organization had “developed a plan which, in our view, achieved the objectives and priorities of the administration, which includes an adjusted remuneration of employees, a reduction in the workforce and the updated investment priorities”.

But the group said that it had not been able to connect directly with DOGE or interior during the subsidy examination process “despite repeated awareness attempts in the last three months”.

A source familiar with the situation said that the group had met the Ernst office, and Taylor said that the Burgum office had met Rbff in Washington earlier this month and was in contact “several times”: “everything that to say the opposite is inaccurate”.

“Since 1998, (RBFF) has helped build what has become an industry of $ 230.5 billion which supports 1.1 million American jobs, generates $ 263 million in tax revenue and contributes to 2 billion dollars per year to fishing and conservation efforts in the 50 states,” RBFF’s press release continued.

“Alarming, in the past two months only since RBFF funding was interrupted, sales of fishing license fell 8.6% in 16 states, which represents the loss of more than $ 590 million in fishermen’s expenses and 5,600 jobs.”

Several other groups came to the defense of RBFF.

Matt Gruhn, president of the Retailers Association of the Americas, told Fox News Digital that he was disappointed with the interior decision to end the subsidy.

“The work (DE RBFF) has been essential to improving the recruitment, retention and reactivation efforts of the pleasure and fishing navigation industry.

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“RBFF was a manager responsible for these dollars taxpayers from the start, with the surveillance of the stakeholders who paid to the fund whose RBFF grant comes, as well as to pass each audit with flying colors.”

In addition, the leader of the American Sportfishing Association warned against the “serious impact” that the loss of subsidies will have on the outdoor industry.

CEO Glenn Hughes said that the members of his organization had accepted in 1950 to self-impose a tax on fishing rods to reinvest in industry and strengthen license sales, housing conservation and more.

The RBFF “Take Me Fishing” campaign began in 1998 with the financing of the tackle tackle congress. Hughes said the effort had generated a total of $ 230.5 billion in economic impact since.

“Without consultation and coordination with the recreational fishing industry, the Ministry of the Interior has decided to retain critical funding from the RBFF, ultimately putting a history of 27 years of growing participation in fishing and efforts to strengthen the economic impact of the fishing industry.”