{"id":1783033,"date":"2022-12-21T15:19:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783033"},"modified":"2022-12-21T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:19:09","slug":"1-7-trillion-omnibus-bill-would-invest-half-a-billion-into-family-planning-threats-to-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/1-7-trillion-omnibus-bill-would-invest-half-a-billion-into-family-planning-threats-to-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.7 Trillion Omnibus Bill Would Invest Half A Billion Into \u2018Family Planning,\u2019 Threats To Biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F1-7-trillion-omnibus-bill-would-invest-half-a-billion-into-family-planning-threats-to-biodiversity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783033&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Packed inside the $1.7 trillion 4,155-page omnibus bill congressional leaders advanced in the Senate on Tuesday reads a feature that would fund half a billion dollars into \u201cfamily planning\/reproductive health,\u201d including in areas where population growth \u201cthreatens biodiversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate leaders advanced the massive spending bill 70-25 Tuesday night, expecting the House to vote on it Wednesday. The legislation was unveiled in the Senate early Tuesday and boasts $858 billion in defense funding and $772.5 billion for non-defense \u201cdiscretionary programs,\u201d according to a summary.<\/p>\n<p>However, several Republican lawmakers, like Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC), said on social media the federal government earmarked the bill with \u201csome of the most egregious provisions,\u201d including making $575,000 available for so-called reproductive health in the event too many human beings threaten the very existence of endangered species.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn a more sinister note, here\u2019s at least $575 million for \u2018family planning\u2019 in areas where population growth \u2018threatens biodiversity,\u201d Bishop said on Twitter. \u201cMalthusianism is a disturbing, anti-human ideology that should have ZERO place in any federal program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On a more sinister note, here&#8217;s at least $575 million for &#8220;family planning&#8221; in areas where population growth &#8220;threatens biodiversity.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Malthusianism is a disturbing, anti-human ideology that should have ZERO place in any federal program. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7EfFx2pq0M\">pic.twitter.com\/7EfFx2pq0M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDanBishop\/status\/1605267946330267673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bishop listed other provisions stemming from Left-wing activism that are littered throughout the spending package.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when Republicans condemn the Biden administration for not doing more to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, Bishop pointed out that the bill allocates $410 million towards border security in the Middle East, $65 million to Pacific coastal salmon recovery, and $3 million for \u201cbee-friendly highways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Foundation released a list of its own focused on \u201cWOKE PRIORITIES IN THE OMNIBUS,\u201d including several LGBTQ projects and \u201canti-racism\u201d initiatives like $1.2 million for \u201cLGBTQIA+ Pride Centers,\u201d $477,000 for the Equity Institute in Rhode Island \u201cto indoctrinate teachers with \u2018antiracism virtual labs,&#8217;\u201d and $3 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum.<\/p>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/20\/politics\/spending-bill-congress-omnibus\/index.html\">reported<\/a> the bill also provides $2.6 billion in funding for U.S. Attorneys for \u201cprosecutions related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol and domestic terrorism cases,\u201d with an additional $11.3 billion to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate extremist violence and domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the spending bill also includes approximately $45 billion in aid to Ukraine amid the war against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Council of Foreign Relations, the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have directed nearly $50 billion in assistance to Ukraine in 2022, which includes humanitarian, financial, and military support.<\/p>\n<p>Some other Republican lawmakers also criticized the bill for the lack of time to sift through its text.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said the process \u201cstinks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI brought along the 1.7 trillion, 4,000+ page Pelosi-Schumer omnibus spending bill that\u2019s being fast-tracked through the Senate,\u201d Paul wrote on Twitter. \u201cThis process stinks. It\u2019s an abomination. It\u2019s a no good rotten way to run government. We\u2019re standing up and saying NO.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told CNN\u2019s Manu Raju that the Appropriations Committee had worked on the legislation for \u201ca very, very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the provisions were well known weeks and weeks and weeks in advance, and getting this bill done for the American people, which really matters, is the most important thing,\u201d Schumer said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/rep-bishop-reveals-sinister-feature-omnibus-bill-family-planning-threats-biodiversity\">FOX News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packed inside the $1.7 trillion 4,155-page omnibus bill congressional leaders advanced in the Senate on Tuesday reads a feature that would fund half a billion dollars into \u201cfamily planning\/reproductive health,\u201d including in areas where population growth \u201cthreatens biodiversity.\u201d Senate leaders advanced the massive spending bill 70-25 Tuesday night, expecting the House to vote on it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1783036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6962,10109,3895,4484,10986,6202,3881,5433,3682,10987,7991,7977,4855,4408,6195,4995],"class_list":["post-1783033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-1-7","tag-bill","tag-billion","tag-biodiversity","tag-daily","tag-family","tag-half","tag-into","tag-invest","tag-omnibus","tag-planning","tag-threats","tag-trillion","tag-wire","tag-would"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}