Senate Democrats are attempting to secure over $32 million in taxpayer funding for a United Nations agency whose primary mission includes advancing "dignity and rights for LGBTQIA+ people" worldwide, according to a new appropriations bill released just weeks before President Trump's second inauguration.
The Democrat-led Senate Appropriations Committee included $32.5 million for the controversial UN agency in their latest "minibus" spending proposal, designed to fund national security and State Department operations. The timing couldn't be more obvious – Democrats are scrambling to lock in funding for their woke agenda before Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress can put a stop to it.
This is exactly the kind of globalist virtue signaling that American taxpayers rejected in November. While working families struggle with inflation and our own border remains wide open, Democrats want to spend millions promoting LGBT ideology through an unaccountable international bureaucracy.
America First vs. Globalist Priorities
The proposed funding represents everything wrong with the Washington establishment's priorities. Instead of securing our border, rebuilding our military, or helping American veterans, Senate Democrats are more concerned with funding UN agencies that push progressive social policies on foreign nations.
This latest money grab comes as incoming Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration prepare to restore America First principles to our foreign policy. The contrast couldn't be clearer – Democrats want to export woke ideology with your tax dollars, while Trump wants to put American interests first.
"The American people didn't vote for their hard-earned money to fund LGBT activism at the United Nations," said one conservative policy expert. "This is a perfect example of the swamp trying to entrench their agenda before Trump takes office."
With Republicans set to control both chambers of Congress, this Democrat wishlist is likely dead on arrival. But it reveals just how desperate the left has become to preserve their globalist agenda in Trump's shadow.
The question Americans should be asking: How many more last-minute attempts will Democrats make to waste our tax dollars on their woke priorities before January 20th?