What's the counterexample of significant funding withdrawn by democratic administrations because of "possibly conservative" language in the output?

"Tone deaf" seems not to be capturing the essence of the malfeasance here.

I think it is some sort of whataboutism without any regard to proportions. Some people have a really hard time emotionally dealing with systems that occusionally fail.

They refused to give money unless your application included a section explaining how you supported Democrat social ideology, during the Biden administration.

So called DIE-statements.