At the height of the annual appropriations process, the GOP’s far-right flank has scrubbed spending bills to eliminate money that would protect LGBTQ rights, ensure gender equality and promote racial justice.
The move quickly touched off a raucous, partisan debate. Rep. Andy Harris — a top appropriator and member of the House Freedom Caucus — at one point aired a series of false or unsupported allegations about the LGBT groups that stood to receive federal dollars. Taking aim at Pressley’s earmark in Massachusetts, for example, Harris alleged it would be improper to try to aid homeless LGBT residents specifically, even though they experience higher levels of homelessness than some other populations.
this year in a bid to rile conservative-leaning voters. In state legislatures across the country, party lawmakers recently have moved to adopt a record number of restrictions that limit gay and transgender rights, while the GOP’s presidential candidates have attacked transgender athletes and rebuked schools that teach about gender identity.A roster of appalled Democrats on Tuesday soon tried to rebut those claims, stressing they were blindsided by the GOP effort to eliminate the earmark funding.
Earlier in the day, GOP aides shared a version of the transportation spending bill that left those LGBT earmarks intact, according to a House Democratic aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions. GOP aides to Rep. Kay Granger , the chairwoman of the full committee, previously had raised concerns in private about the spending, but they had not explicitly threatened to eliminate the three earmarks, the Democratic official said.
“You are negotiating with terrorists,” she said, a comment that her aides likened to former House Speaker John A. Boehner’s infamous past comments about his own party’s right-wing flank. DeLauro later retracted the comment, facing criticism from Republicans for her language.
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