She has spunk!
Democrats in the House of Representatives are livid and have called out their GOP colleagues.The AdvocateBy Christopher WigginsJuly 18 2023In what lawmakers have called an unprecedented move, House Republicans introduced and moved a last-minute amendment stripping three community projects of funding as part of a committee markup for the 2024 Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development spending bill. Of the 2,680 projects previously approved, these three all serve the LGBTQ+ community.The ranking member of the committee, Connecticut Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro, called the GOP move one of “terrorists.”The Republican-led House Committee on Appropriations took up and passed a last-minute amendment that sought to strike funding for three community centers that serve LGBTQ+ seniors in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc., William Way LGBT Center, and LGBT Center of Greater Reading were all stripped of funds.
Thank you Representative DeLauro for standing up for us and telling like it is.
Rep. Brendan Boyle, whose Philadelphia-area project was defunded, tells The Advocate that he and many of his colleagues suspect that Republicans just searched for the keyword “LGBTQ” to see which projects to target.Quigley also wondered whether Republicans just looked for the term. “Is this going to be part of the process as we go on?” Quigley asked. “Are we reconstructing the closet here?”
And the funding was for senior living centers for us, where we are facing more discrimination as we grow older.
Yeah, there animosity toward us is so great that I wouldn’t put it past to do a document word search!
Hip Hip Hurrah for Rep. Rosa DeLauro. Thank you for telling it like it is. But remember we can also add FASCIST to that and then you have it.
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