The House GOP fought to remove questionable pet project funding from the federal budget, which included help for abortions and criminal aliens. This will save millions of taxpayers, which will also prevent voter backlash to members of the GOP who have done nothing when they have done nothing regarding their campaign promises. Some of the places that lost funding will cause an uproar within the LGBT community and their supporters, but it will also cut a bloated budget that is dragging us further into debt.
Abortion Locations
Congressman Robert Aderholt (Al-4) who is the Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, listed several of the projects that lost funding. Women and Infants Hospital in Rhode Island was to get $1.8 million and is known for late term abortions. Dartmouth Hitchcock, Nashua in New Hampshire was to receive $650,000 and is also known for late term abortions. These being removed cleared away a lot of the political flak that GOP members would see.
Criminal Support
Two locations were given as supporting criminal aliens and lost funding. Entre Hermanos in Washington state lost $706,000. They state on their website, “Entre Hermanos’ Immigration Department aims to achieve the rights of immigrants through direct legal services. Without appropriate legal assistance, members of the LGBTQ Latino community find it difficult to obtain legal immigration status. Our Immigration Department will also engage in advocacy and immigration policy reform through collaboration with other nonprofits, community-based organizations, government agencies, and Latin American consulates.”
LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc. in Boston lost $850,000 and is listed for both criminal alien support and drug needle exchange. Looking over their website and other searches does not make information easily found on this, but Congress should have better access to such information.
Medical Location
This will most likely cause me to be called all sorts of names by the conservative community, some of the sites that offer medical assistance to the LGBT community seem to only have been targeted for their LGBT affiliation. With the ever shrinking medical access in this nation after all the interference from the federal government, there needs to be help in as many places as possible. That does not mean treating criminal aliens, having a needle exchange, or giving abortions, but valid medical care.
Hopefully, these cuts will give other members of the GOP the incentive to do what is right when it comes to making necessary cuts to the budget. The GOP has for too long allowed the Democrat Party free rein, even when the GOP was supposedly in power. Maybe they will also curb their own spending, which can allow for paying down the debt and giving a greater impact to tax cuts. It would be nice to see this as a start to a shrinking government.

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