The $460 billion government funding bill that the House is scheduled to vote on Wednesday includes $1 million that will go to LGBTQ community centers that used to host kids and drag events.
This comes as Democrats praise the bill for containing no “poison pills” while Republican hardliners lament what they call a missed opportunity to force passage of conservative policies. It happened in
The creation of the William Way LGBT Community Center in Philadelphia was sponsored by Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pennsylvania, and Sens. Bob Casey and John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania.
In a 2016 article published in Philadelphia Gay News titled “Young People Celebrate the Art of Drag at William Way,” an 11-year-old boy named Esai and an 8-year-old boy named Max took part in William Way. It was written that he was participating in a youth drag event held in . center.
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“As Esai slides down from his chair, his blonde hair is tightly curled, his lips are purple, and his eyes are covered in pink and silver eyeshadow against a rosy face. He stumbles past in oversized heeled boots and changes.”He wears a purple ‘We Are Made of Stars’ T-shirt.Apart from the professional application of makeup, he wears no dress. “It could be a little girl playing with it,” the article reads.
The newspaper described his makeup as being applied by “a bearded man wearing studded leather platform boots.”
“Max dances to Meghan Trainor’s ‘No’ and regularly falls into the hem of a long red dress. There is no choreography to this and it actually involves children dancing and playing dress-up. and just having fun,” the article said. She is 8 years old.
The quota was highlighted in a memo from Americans Advancing Freedom (AAF), a policy and advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence.
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Contessa marches with the William Way LGBT Community Center in the Gay Pride Parade through downtown Philadelphia on June 12, 2016. The center has received $1 million in a bipartisan spending agreement.
This is one of more than 6,000 appropriations included in the bill, totaling $12.7 billion in spending, and conservative lawmakers are furious.
“Earmarks are essentially rifts in Congress,” Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia told Fox News Digital. “Congress’ opium – and opium is OPM, other people’s money. Congress is into it.”
“It will get people to vote yes, increase spending, increase borrowing, and push our country further down the path of fiscal irresponsibility,” he said.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) argued that lawmakers haven’t had enough time to properly scrutinize the bill, including all the additional details.
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Congressman Andrew Clyde called the spending a “rift in Congress.” (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
“No one can really scrutinize all the criteria in the 48-hour period we’ve been given so far. These highlights are just the tip of the iceberg. We have to keep our heads down,” he wrote. .
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Meanwhile, the AAF memo notes that policies that Republican hardliners fought to include in the bill, such as restricting transgender medical care, displaying the Pride flag, and critical race theory, did not make it into the final bill. did.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York celebrated on Tuesday, declaring that the bill does not contain “catastrophic cuts or poison pill riders promoted by MAGA.”
