CQ Roll Call | T Williams
House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., at left, placed a new restriction on earmarks for nonprofits amid GOP concerns about LGBTQ programs (above)…. House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., called the change a “seismic shift” that would block funding for YMCAs, Boys & Girls Clubs and other critical community programs. She said members of both parties would suffer. “In order to accommodate the extreme Republican wing, Republicans are trying to root out any help for the LGBTQ+ community,” she said in a statement. “They are willing to hurt their own religious organizations, seniors and veterans.”