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The $1.7 trillion omnibus would funnel BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to woke pet projects from members like AOC & Hakeem Jeffries.
Then why are some Senate Republicans planning to vote for it?
Here are 55 terrible earmarks that NO REPUBLICAN should vote for🐖🧵:
Then why are some Senate Republicans planning to vote for it?
Here are 55 terrible earmarks that NO REPUBLICAN should vote for🐖🧵:
The omnibus bill will funnel MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to LGBT groups peddling radical gender ideology - many of those $$$ will go to orgs that target YOUTH
You won’t believe how ridiculous some of these earmarks are⬇️⬇️⬇️
You won’t believe how ridiculous some of these earmarks are⬇️⬇️⬇️
🚨$105,000 for a “mentoring program for LGBTQ youth” at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh
🚨$1,000,000 for Zora’s House, a “coworking and community space built by and for women and gender expansive people of color” in Ohio
🚨$500,000 to Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth, Inc.
🚨$1,200,000 for “centers to support LGBT students” in California’s San Diego Community College District.
🚨$113,520 to the LGBT Center of Greater Reading, PA for “wrap-around services and support for at-risk youth”
🚨$523,345 for Compass LGBTQ Youth and Family Services in Lake Worth Beach, FL to provide “behavioral health and wraparound services”
🚨$856,000 for “facilities and equipment” at an NY LGBT Center - a @SenSchumer / @SenGillibrand pet project
🚨$1,500,000 for the LOFT LGBTQ+ Community Center New Home Project in New York
🚨$750,000 for NY-based In Our Own Voices, Inc. - which aims to “strengthen the voices” of LGBT people of color and increase their “capacity for combating oppression and marginalization” - to fund “Transitional Housing and Services” for LGBT and “gender non-conforming” people
🚨$663,250 for the New York Historical Society / American LGBTQ+ Museum Partnership Project - an @RepAOC earmark
🚨$250,000 to support “WI’s First-In-The-Nation Gay Rights Law (1982) Book and Archive”
This omnibus funds all manner of fantasy climate ideology - a dream come true for far-left members like @RepAOC who constantly whine about “climate change” and “environmental justice”🍃
Here are just a few examples:
Here are just a few examples:
🚨$1,323,000 for “workforce development activities at a climate change education center in the Los Angeles Community College District
🚨$3,000,000 for “clean energy workforce development” at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. This is an @RepAOC and @SenGillibrand pet project
🚨$200,000 for the Rhode Island AFL-CIO’s “climate jobs workforce training initiative”
🚨$875,000 for “green energy on demand” at Clarkson University
🚨$400,000 for the placement of at-risk young adults into the “green jobs industry”
🚨$2,000,000 for a “community-driven air quality and environmental justice assessment” at the University of Illinois
🚨$2,000,000 for a “climate change impact on water” initiative at Texas State University
🚨$791,200 for “Equitable Energy Resilience and EV Infrastructure” in Sonoma County, California
🚨$1,500,000 for a “climate resilient agriculture research and demonstration program” at Prairie View A&M University
🚨$10,000,000 for the State of Hawaii’s Zero Emission Bus Program
🚨$1,600,000 for the Center for Wind Energy at UT Dallas
🚨There are too many solar panel pet projects to list here!
Here are a few:
Here are a few:
🚨The omni FUNDS pointless “equity initiatives” and subsidizes even MORE radical ideology pet projects in leftist states like California:
🚨$1,500,000 for “equity and ecosystem health through water column development” at the University of Washington
🚨$2,250,000 for the “Shoreline Equity and Adaptation Hub” at the University of Hawai’i
🚨$750,000 for the acquisition of a building in Brooklyn, NY to “create the Brooklyn Center for Social Justice, Entrepreneurship and the Arts”
🚨$300,000 for the City of Sacramento’s “Neighborhood Equity Initiative”
🚨$477,000 for The Equity Institute’s “teacher professional development”
🚨$956,000 for The Equity Incubator at the Universities at Shady Grove
🚨$500,000 for a “digital equity initiative” at Lehman College of the City University of New York
🚨$1,000,000 for a “permanent home” for Wild Project Productions Inc - an NY-based org that aims to support artists who “promote social equity”
🚨$563,000 for “equitable approaches to public safety in the City of New Bedford”
🚨$750,000 for The National AIDS Memorial’s Center for Health and Social Justice
🚨$462,000 for “economic inequality and mobility research” in Connecticut
🚨$2,000,000 for the Morgan State University Center for Equitable Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
🚨$1,350,000 for the City of Gustine’s Broadband Equity and Expansion Project
‼️ This omni sends MILLIONS of taxpayer $$$ to radical “social justice” organizations promoting divisive racial ideology.
A few particularly egregious examples⬇️⬇️⬇️
A few particularly egregious examples⬇️⬇️⬇️
🚨$443,000 for “The Racial Justice Improvement Project” in the Montgomery County DA’s office
🚨$1,000,000 for the Penumbra Theatre in Saint Paul, MN to develop and implement a “curriculum”
The theater promotes “racial healing” and “equity training” on their website home page - wonder what this “curriculum” will teach?
The theater promotes “racial healing” and “equity training” on their website home page - wonder what this “curriculum” will teach?
🚨$1,000,000 for Black Veterans for Social Justice, Inc. in Brooklyn, NY to provide stipends, supportive services, and job placement for formerly incarcerated veterans
🚨$650,000 for “improving access to capital, networks, and knowledge for arts businesses of color”
🚨$650,000 for the Seattle Minority Entrepreneurship Center
🚨$800,000 for “Economic Development for Black Communities” in Colorado
🚨$750,000 for a “Minority-Owned Small Business Emergency Assistance Program” in Seattle
🚨$4,000,000 for the Fisk University John R. Lewis Center for Social Justice - Race Relations Building
🚨$145,000 for “Black Economic Opportunity”
🚨$670,000 for the Oregon Native American Chamber to provide “Technical Assistance for Small Native-Owned Construction Businesses”
🚨$625,000 for a “Minority-Owned Business Dashboard” at Loyola University Chicago
🚨$1,260,000 for the Colorado African Small Business Accelerator Program
🚨$1,000,000 for an “indigenous data science hub” at the University of Hawaii
🚨$1,000,000 for “exploring cultural linkages between Black Marylanders and civil rights movements abroad”
🚨$257,000 for the AFRO-American Newspapers’ Digitization Preparation Fellowship
🚨$496,000 for “reclaiming the forgotten legacy of the African American Civilian Conservation Corps in South Georgia”
🚨$500,000 for the “Native Oral Histories Archiving Project” at the University of New Mexico
🚨$4,000,000 for El Centro de la Raza (The Center for People of All Races), a social justice org that promotes “critical consciousness, justice, dignity, and equity”
They declare they are a “sensitive location” for purposes of immigration enforcement policy
They declare they are a “sensitive location” for purposes of immigration enforcement policy
If that wasn’t enough reasons to vote NO on this terrible bill, here are a few BONUS ones ⬇️⬇️⬇️
🚨$1,000,000 for a “community-based gun violence reduction project” at the University of New Haven
🚨$3,617,500 for the Michelle Obama Trail in Georgia
🚨$650,000 for the Refugee Artisan Initiative, which “partners with immigrant women to foster an inclusive, prosperous transition to the US through artisan skills training in zero waste and small batch manufacturing”
This is only a small sample - the omnibus bill is 4,100+ pages full of more of the same!
That’s why Rep. Roy and 30 House Republicans have warned Senate Rs that they intend to block the policy priorities of ANY Senator who votes for this omnibus bill.
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That’s why Rep. Roy and 30 House Republicans have warned Senate Rs that they intend to block the policy priorities of ANY Senator who votes for this omnibus bill.
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