School spends Biden COVID funds on drag show and performers.

High School Uses Biden COVID Funds to Put on Drag Show Performance, Pay Performers

President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan was supposed to help those suffering from the effects of COVID-19 or the hardships caused by lockdowns. However, it seems that Manchester West High School in New Hampshire found a way to use the funds for a pride month event featuring drag queens. Yes, you read that right.

“Help is here with the American Rescue Plan,” the site’s banner headline announces. Below it are badly sketched illustrations as desolate, despairing and heartrending as Walker Evans’ Great Depression photos, which link to pages that can help you get the necessary government-issued largesse.”

The school’s grant request to use the leftover funds from the pandemic giveaway was approved by Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig, a Democrat eyeing a run at the governor’s mansion. However, for reasons that needn’t be explained, this has caused what Newsweek charitably called “a rift between some Republican and Democratic players.”

Is This Really the Best Use of Taxpayer Funds?

New Hampshire Department of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut is skeptical that this is what “pandemic relief” involves. “Is this really the best use of taxpayer funds?” he asked.

Although LGBTQ+ events weren’t specifically listed in the guidelines, cities had flexibility in determining the best use for the funds. Such events likely fell under “responding to the public health and negative economic impacts of the pandemic,” Newsweek noted.

So, in other words, the poor LGBTQ2ABCBGB++ community at Manchester West High School was so “disproportionately affected” by the pandemic they need a cool four grand for a pride month bash, including $500 for drag queens. And you’re paying for it!

The Problem with Biden’s Spending Spree

Yes, it’s a drop of pork fat in the $1.9 trillion bucket that is the American Rescue Plan, but this is part of the problem with the Biden administration’s spending spree: All of these packages contain a torrential downpour of lard, and the White House behaves as if emptying just one bucket of it is tantamount to Dickensian austerity.

Federal funds for drag queens at a high school could be the most egregious example, but look a bit harder and you’ll find some competition. And I promise you, none of that pork will be helping that poor, imaginary, badly sketched dad, holding his child in the air and wondering if he’ll be able to make the rent payment next month. Thanks, President Biden.

• One high school in New Hampshire used Biden’s COVID relief funds to put on a pride month event featuring drag queens.
• The grant request to use the leftover funds from the pandemic giveaway was approved by Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig, a Democrat eyeing a run at the governor’s mansion.
• New Hampshire Department of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut is skeptical that this is what “pandemic relief” involves.
• The problem with the Biden administration’s spending spree is that all of these packages contain a torrential downpour of lard.