CV NEWS FEED // A conservative advocacy group released a report Thursday slamming parts of a $1.2 trillion bill under consideration by Congress.
Leaders in both houses of Congress introduced the bill’s text – which observers have dubbed the “minibus” – earlier that day.
Advancing American Freedom (AAF) stated in its report that the minibus “contains thousands of pages of text and supporting documents,” but “Congress is providing less than the agreed-upon bare minimum of 72 hours to read and digest legislation.”
The “bad” parts of the bill include the allocation of hundreds of millions of federal taxpayer dollars toward “[w]asteful spending, diversity training, [and] other countries’ border security,” according to AAF.
The group specified that if the bill were passed, it would devote “[u]p to $880 [million] to secure the borders of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, [and] Oman,” $100 million for diversity training “inside the Health Resources and Services Administration,” and an additional “$119 [million] to ‘combat the transnational threat of wildlife poaching and trafficking.’”
AAF pointed out other spending allocations in the bill that it dubbed “the ugly,” among which were “[f]unding for transgenderism, late-term abortions,” and “anti-Israel advocacy.”
The bill would allocate a whopping 200 million taxpayer dollars to “gender equity and equality action,” per the AAF’s report.
The report also pointed out that the bill has over $30 million set aside for “the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund,” almost two million dollars for “a Rhode Island hospital that provides late-term abortions,” and over one million dollars for the “Inner-City Muslim Action Network, which has called Israel an apartheid state.”
The group noted that “[t]here are likely many other concerning items” in the minibus besides those listed in the report.
CBS News reported Thursday: “The release of the bill’s text kicks off a tight timeline to approve the legislation and stave off a partial government shutdown by 12 a.m. Saturday.”
“House lawmakers are ordinarily given 72 hours to review legislation before a vote is held,” CBS added. “But that timeline is expected to be collapsed with the shutdown deadline looming, which could anger some House conservatives already frustrated by the spending agreement.”
On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, told The Hill that he opposes the package.
“I will hold it up primarily because we’re bankrupt, and it’s a terrible idea to keep spending money at this rate,” Paul said.
Readers can find AAF’s full report here.
