Sarah Posner is the author of 'Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind.'
House Republicans are quietly trying to use a normally inconspicuous congressional budget process to make life for LGBTQ Americans as repressive as possible. Under new rules set out last month by House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole, R-Okla., members can no longer request funds for nonprofits in their districts under the Economic Development Initiative, a federal program designed to help these organizations provide needed social services to their constituents.
He compiled a laundry list of conspiratorial complaints about services to LGBTQ people, including that one funded organization had advertised a drag brunch. Other far-right GOP representatives blasted the bill for funding “shocking” programs like “gay senior housing.
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