by Morgan Phillips at Daily Mail
- Pennsylvania Democratic Sens. John Fetterman and Bob Casey requested $1 million for the William Way LGBTQ center, which hosts monthly ‘fetish nights’
- Rep. Jamaal Bowman clinched $1.65 million to build and ‘artists’ living and workspace’ with the Environmental Leaders of Color
Ultra-conservative Republicans are railing against the 605 pages of earmarks that will be included in a $460 billion spending package to fund six agencies of government that will come up for a vote on Wednesday.
The earmarks have already caused scandal within the Senate, where Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman‘s office rescinded support for a $1 million earmark for an LGBTQ center in Pennsylvania that hosts BDSM parties.
The funding caused a backlash on social media, prompting Fetterman, who was long one of the staunchest pro-LGBTQ lawmakers in the Keystone State, to have the earmark removed.
Senior appropriator Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., moved to have the funding struck from the bill on the Senate floor on Tuesday night.
Fetterman later told reporters it was his staff, not him, that moved to remove the funding.
‘It wasn’t my decision,’ he said. ‘I was not part of the process.’
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Bob Casey also has his name on the earmark…
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