The U.S. Department of Defense has until July 14 to answer a conservative congressman’s request for a “full accounting” of all DoD spending on “LGBTQ+”-related activities during the so-called “Pride Month” of June.
In a June 1 letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, chastised the military for “expending vital resources on this type of political maneuvering, most apparent during the month of June,” which he said “is inconsistent with the national security interests of the United States and is an inexcusable use of taxpayer dollars.”
Roy said the military’s pressuring of its commanders to “publicly demonstrate their allegiance to this agenda will further erode the unity within our service ranks and the public’s confidence in our fighting force.”
“Despite plummeting recruitment numbers and pushback from Congress, DoD appears adamant about spending taxpayer dollars to impose this blatantly political agenda on our men and women in uniform,” Roy wrote. “We believe the American people deserve a full accounting of the resources that DoD expends on these contentious initiatives during the month of June.”
“In the meantime,” Roy tweeted June 28, “our team is tracking the receipts.” Number one on his list of the “WORST ways we know the DoD has abused YOUR tax $” in June was this, which he tweeted the same day: “YOUR taxpayer $$ [were] used to fly service members across the country to Pride events….Obviously, rainbow parades are critical to prepare the armed forces to face lethal threats like China and Russia….”
In his letter to Sec. Austin, Roy requested the following:
Despite the pushback from some in Congress, Just the News reported July 4: “Federal spending on these issues is only poised to grow. Biden released his proposed federal budget in March, requesting record funding levels for an array of LGBT projects.”
Roy commended the Air Force and the Navy for scaling back a portion of their “pride” activities, tweeting June 28: “The Air Force canceled their drag show, the Navy took down their pride posts… Maybe the DoD is taking the hint: our service men and women, and the American people, DO NOT want woke indoctrination in the military.”
In related news, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., continues to lead the charge in the Senate against wasteful, “woke” spending and “mission” priorities in the Biden military. Last month, Rubio introduced the cleverly-named BOONDOGGLE Act in an attempt to ban the military from spending taxpayers’ dollars to fly servicemembers to various “pride” events. “BOONDOGGLE” stands for “Banning Overspending on Non-Defense Objectives at Gratuitous Gatherings and Learning Events, according to a Florida Daily report June 23.
The bill limits “professional development travel and transportation allowances” to training that “relates to the military occupational specialty of the member.” It bans such allowances for activities or events that are “related to the sexual orientation of the member,” or that “promote the sex, race, or religion of the member as superior or inferior to another sex, race, or religion.’’
“The U.S. Department of Defense … has been using taxpayer dollars to fly service members to Pride events in Washington, D.C. This is a gross misuse of taxpayer money, as these events have no relation to military training or defense,” Rubio said, according to the Florida Daily. “The DoD’s limited budget should only be used to ensure that the U.S. military is the most lethal fighting force in the history of the world, not to celebrate the Left’s new civic religion.”
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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., are listed as co-sponsors of the BOONDOGGLE Act.
Just the News reports that “a recent report from the DOD Comptroller shows $86.5 million for ‘dedicated diversity and inclusion activities.’”
In March, Rubio sounded out against Biden’s weakening of the American military by flooding it with “woke” projects and standards: “The United States military is the greatest fighting force in the world, but woke activists in the Biden Administration are undermining military readiness, cohesion, and purpose,” Rubio told the Center Square. “We cannot allow these left-wing crazies to hollow out our military. The world is an increasingly dangerous place and America’s security requires a strong military capable of deterring – and if need be, defending – our nation.”
As WND recently reported, the Pentagon honored gay activist icon Harvey Milk as part of its 2023 “Pride Month” celebration, while make no mention of Milk’s “chickenhawk” penchant for pursuing much younger men – and even, in one case, an underage teen boy – as sexual partners, nor the fact that Milk himself was sexually abused by adult homosexual men when he was a 14, according to his homosexual biographer, Randy Shilts.
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In another June 28 tweet, Roy retweeted a Heritage Foundation video tweet of a general saying she would take into account diversity factors in choosing candidates, e.g., for “squadron command.” Roy commented: “Since when did sexual ‘identity’ make someone a strong military candidate? Time to get our priorities back in order….Wokeness won’t win wars”:
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