Millions for Gender, Equity, Climate Projects Included in the Omnibus Bill

While the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package that the Senate passed Thursday has been heralded by some Democrats and Republicans as a victory, others have begun sounding the alarm over what exactly is included in the 4,155-page bill.
In a series of tweets Thursday, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) slammed the bill’s inclusion of funding for “woke pet projects.”
“The omnibus bill will funnel MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to LGBT groups peddling radical gender ideology—many of those [dollars] will go to orgs that target YOUTH,” Roy wrote in one tweet.
Included among the bill’s earmarks are $856,000 for the facilities and equipment at a New York LGBT Center; $105,000 for an LBTQ youth mentoring program at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh; $1.2 million for “centers to support LGBT students” in California’s San Diego Community College District; $500,000 for Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth, Inc.; and $750,000 for In Our Own Voices, Inc., a New York-based organization that seeks to “strengthen the voices” of LGBT people of color and help them combat “oppression and marginalization.”…}