Omnibus Bill Includes over $11 Million in LGBT Special Interest Projects

Source: https://washingtonstand.com/news/omnibus-bill-includes-over-11-million-in-lgbt-special-interest-projects
Published: Dec 20, 2022
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2022-12-20 17:28:57 by Horse
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Congressional Democrats unveiled an over 4,000-page, $1.7 trillion government funding package early Tuesday morning, leaving lawmakers little time to review the text and vote on it before a looming government shutdown on Friday at midnight. Experts point out that the omnibus bill’s earmarks include over $11 million in LGBT-themed projects, and GOP lawmakers say the special interest spending could be avoided if the omnibus was delayed until January when the newly elected Republican-led House would be in power.

The earmarks laid out for LGBT-themed special interest projects in the omnibus spending bill include:

$1.2 million for “LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers” at San Diego Community College

$1 million for Zora’s Housein Ohio, a “coworking and community space” for “women and gender-expansive people of color”

$3 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City

$1 million designated for “LGBT special services program as a part of the VAWA grant funding”

$250,000 for “Our Lives Matter,” a gay rights law archive in Wisconsin

$750,000 for the “TransLatin@ Coalition” to provide “workforce development programs and supportive services for Transgender and Gender nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) immigrant women in Los Angeles”

$105,000 for a mentoring program for LGBT youth in the greater Pittsburg area

$856,000 for an “LGBT Center” in New York

$523,345 for Compass LGBT Youth and Social Services programing

$113,520 for an LGBT Center of Greater Reading, Pa.

$500,000 to establish a staff position for Special Advisor to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQIA+ persons

$1.5 million for an LGBT+ community center new home project in New York

$750,000 for “LGBT and Gender Non-Conforming housing” in Albany, New York

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