(The Center Square) – As LGBT Pride Month ends, a close look at federal spending trends shows that the U.S. government is increasingly doling out billions of dollars for a range of LGBT-linked projects across education, the military, foreign aid and more.
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, sent a letter to the Department of Defense last month giving the federal agency a July 15 deadline to report back every way that taxpayer dollars allocated for defense purposes are being used to “fund Pride Month activities.”
“It has come to our attention that the Department of Defense (DoD) will once again divert American families’ tax dollars away from advancing its mission to ‘deter war and ensure our nation’s security’ to the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) events during the month of June 2023,” Roy wrote in the letter.
Roy argues the funds could be better used elsewhere and that embracing politically divisive topics like this hurt recruitment.
“Expending vital resources on this type of political maneuvering, most apparent during the month of June, is inconsistent with the national security interests of the United States and is an inexcusable use of taxpayer dollars,” the letter said.
Pride Month is not the only time the DOD has used taxpayer dollars to support LGBT causes. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., raised similar concerns in March of this year.
Rubio pointed to a report released last year detailing how training materials, among other things, had embraced many progressive ideas around sexuality and gender.
The report points to one case where a slide presentation for the Air Force Academy is titled “Diversity & Inclusion: What it is, why we care, & what we can do.” That training warns cadets to avoid using gendered language, such as words like “mom” and “dad.”
“The United States military is the greatest fighting force in the world, but woke activists in the Biden Administration are undermining military readiness, cohesion, and purpose,” Rubio, R-Fla., told The Center Square.
A recent report from the DODComptroller shows $86.5 million for “dedicated diversity and inclusion activities.”
“The Department will lead with our values – building diversity, equity, and inclusion into everything we do,” the report said.
Roy pointed to media reports of several instances of taxpayer dollars used by the military apparatus for Pride Month purposes. He included reports that service members were flown around the U.S. for Pride events and pointed to “gender identity care” from the Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals.
Federal spending on these issues is only poised to grow. Biden released his proposed federal budget in March, requesting record funding levels for an array of LGBT projects.
As The Center Square previously reported, Biden’s 2024 budget proposal requested billions of dollars to push a progressive gender and sexuality agenda around the globe. The budget requests more funding for the gender and sexuality efforts than dozens of other spending items, including stopping fentanyl smuggling across the southern border.
Biden’s budget request for gender and sexuality around the world has more than doubled in the last two years. While Biden pledged to cut about $3 trillion from federal spending in other areas over the next decade, his budget increased gender and sexuality-based funding.
“The Administration remains steadfast in its commitment to invest in opportunities for women and girls and support the needs of marginalized communities, including the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex community,” the budget said. “Reflective of that commitment, the Budget requests more than $3 billion to advance gender equity and equality across a broad range of sectors.”
Foreign aid is largely interwoven with LGBT rights efforts via the United States Agency for International Development.
“USAID is committed to advancing the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) people around the world and meaningfully including them in development programming,” the agency says on its website referring to “development programming,” otherwise known as the taxpayer-funded aid projects around the world.
The U.S. State Department, which has embassies around the world don rainbow flags, released its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Strategic Plan last fall.
Other agencies are involved as well. Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a controversial decision to tie federal school lunch funding to whether schools comply with several LGBT mandates, such as allowing transgender athletes to compete against students not of their birth gender.
The Department of Justice is another major federal agency following this pattern. In one instance, the DOJ distributed $150,000 via a federal grant to “amplify the voices” of transgender people in New Orleans who are accusing the police of discrimination.
Researchers from Grant recipient Rutgers University pledged to find 25 subjects and “conduct narrative interviews” to document their experiences. The university-based the research on the assumption that police officers discriminate against LGBT people of color.
The DOJ funded the study in question in 2016 via the W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime, a fund established to collect data on race and crime and was titled. The study was titled “Intersectional Subjection and Law Enforcement: Examining Perceptions Held by LGBTQ People of Color in New Orleans, LA.”
Money meant to protect and defend America spent on ‘celebrating’ perversion. Is this where America is now ?
PatriotUSA – “Is this where America is now ?”
No! This is where this treasonous, destructive, unethical, immoral, demonic, woke, socialist Democrat Party and their treasonous, corrupt, puppet president Joe Biden is now! And must be destroyed by WE the PEOPLE!
Thursday, March 12, 2015. Michael F. Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)
“Joe Biden went on to assure the pro-LGBTQ crowd that even though the Obama administration cannot enforce a thought police, people who stand for their religious convictions are in the process of being wiped out — as the White House’s homosexual agenda continues to proliferate across the nation. Carson and others who ascribe to the biblical view of homosexuality should be eradicated from the planet in the name of “equality” and “tolerance.” ”
The LGBTQ Con and deception is just to want “equality, acceptance and tolerance.”
These LGBTQ’s are the open practitioners of the infamous crime against GOD and nature, Who sold their souls to the malicious, venomous bullies of Organized LGBTQ mafia. These Sodomites, will not tolerate and will attack and attempt to destroy anyone and anything not accepting and promoting their degenerate, sexually perverted lifestyle.
Bigotry is not necessarily always a bad thing. One need not tolerate or accept every belief or action of another.
* Why did the federal government give the 3% LEBTQ a month to celebrate their unnatural sexual perversions and dictate that everyone must support and bow down to these degenerates?
Why has this Democrat Party adopted the woke and reparation, the BLACK LIVES MATTER organization and racist affirmative action mandate?
Yusra Khogali co-founder of the anti-racial “Black Lives Matter” movement, does not hide her racist hatred of white people in her comments on social media.
* Why did the federal government give the African Americans a month to celebrate their Black History but no other race received a month.
* Why do the millions of veterans and citizens who gave their life in defense of our country only get a Memorial day or Veterans day
” Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing Army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.”
James Madison
WHICH IS why the left’s SO hell bent, in DISARMING WE the people. BUT leaving guns in the hands of Criminals, Antifa and their SS (the fbi/irs etc).
” Which Century is this about…. It could well have been written about conditions today in America but…WE meet in the middle of a nation brought to the verge of moral, Political, and Material RUIN. Corruption dominates the BALLOT BOX, THE Legislatures, the congress, and touches even the Ermine of the bench. the people are demoralized; THE NEWSPAPERS are largely subsidized or muzzled; Opinion Silenced; business prostrated; our homes covered with mortgages; Labor impoverished and the land concentrated in the hands of the Capitalists…” The urban workmen are denied imported pauperized, labor beats down their wages; A hireling standing ARMY; UNRECONGIZE BY YOUR LAWS; is established to shoot them down and they rapidly degenerating into European conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these in turn despise the Republic and endanger Liberty. From the same prolific womb of Governmental injustice, we breed the two great classes, Tramps and Millionaires.”
From ” The growth of the American Republic.”
Unfortunately, YES it does seem that is where we’re at.
“As ‘Pride Month’ Ends, Taxpayer Spending On LGBT Projects Piles Up
Casey Harper, The Center Square | Jul 5, 2023 | News ”
” PatriotUSA July 5, 2023
“…Money meant to protect and defend America spent on ‘celebrating’ perversion. Is this where America is now ?
“…It has come to our attention that the Department of Defense (DoD) will once again divert American families’ tax dollars away from advancing its mission to ‘deter war and ensure our nation’s security’ to the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) events during the month of June 2023,” Roy wrote in the letter.-
“,,,Roy argues the funds could be better used elsewhere and that embracing politically divisive topics like this hurt recruitment…”
” AMERICAN MARXISM BY MARK LEVIN-PAGE # 51
Dewey argued, as MARX Had that the Nation’s youth must be freed from existing morals values belief systems traditions customs and the like through PUBLIC EDUCATION….’
Our tax dollars hard at work. The liberals are negatively impacting the country.
Straight people are still at a loss of just what they are proud of? Pride in total gender and sexual confusion is not a sign of a sound mind, usually accompanied by an unsound body, whose taxpayer funded Gay Obama initiated health cost just get in the way of nature culling ourt the mistakes.
” Shocking new poll, “Is America Worth defending, Democrats Say, NO.. ” Gopusa Blog…
IF this isn’t the height of misappropriation of govt funds, i don’t know what is!
Congress — Stop this spending
The ” SPENDING” that your referring to is Listed under, most likely,’ General Funds’ and will go to Washington elite, to grease the rails of Special projects As needed by democrat Socialist , elite in Washington. Remember, ” The Squeeky wheel gets the GREASE.” Author of quote, Unknown.
USA, home of the perverts fully endorsed by the government as its new religion and funded by your tax dollars. This is most likely the way the Roman Empire went to the bottom of the heap in history.