{"id":1928562,"date":"2023-05-11T01:41:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T05:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gross-misuse-of-taxpayer-funds-gop-bill-would-ban-military-base-drag-shows\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T01:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T05:45:05","slug":"gross-misuse-of-taxpayer-funds-gop-bill-would-ban-military-base-drag-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gross-misuse-of-taxpayer-funds-gop-bill-would-ban-military-base-drag-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP bill aims to ban military base drag shows, citing &#8216;gross misuse&#8217; of taxpayer funds."},"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%2Fgross-misuse-of-taxpayer-funds-gop-bill-would-ban-military-base-drag-shows%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=1928562&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--><h2>Senate Republicans Introduce Bill to Ban Taxpayer-Funded Drag Queen Shows on Military Bases<\/h2>\n<h3>A Threat to National Security and a Gross Misuse of Taxpayer Funds<\/h3>\n<p>Senate Republicans have introduced a bill to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gross-misuse-of-taxpayer-funds-gop-bill-would-ban-military-base-drag-shows\/\" title=\"GOP bill aims to ban military base drag shows, citing 'gross misuse' of taxpayer funds.\">ban taxpayer-funded drag queen shows<\/a> on military bases, calling the shows a &#8220;gross misuse of taxpayer funds.&#8221; The bill, sponsored by Sen. Steve Daines (R., Mont.), prohibits using Department of Defense funds and facilities &#8220;to host, advertise, or otherwise support an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-gop-proposes-bill-to-ban-public-drag-shows-medical-transition-of-minors\/\" title=\"Tennessee GOP Proposes Bill to Ban Public Drag Shows, Medical Transition of Minors\">adult cabaret performance<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill defines an adult cabaret performance as &#8220;a performance that features topless dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dances, strippers, or male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to prurient interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Allowing the DoD to become a branch of [the] far-left helping to promote their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-the-fight-against-critical-race-theory-has-only-just-begun\/\" title=\"GOP: The Fight Against Critical Race Theory Has Only Just Begun\">radical gender ideology<\/a> by hosting and promoting drag queen performances is a threat to our national security and gross misuse of taxpayer funds. This must be stopped immediately,&#8221; Daines said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h3>Recruitment Struggles and the Military&#8217;s Embrace of Woke Ideology<\/h3>\n<p>Daines fears the military&#8217;s embrace of drag queens and other woke ideology is also crippling its ongoing recruitment struggles. In an attempt to attract the younger generation, the Navy promoted a &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; drag queen to be its &#8220;digital ambassador,&#8221; the Washington Free Beacon reported last week.<\/p>\n<p>In FY 2022, the Army fell 25 percent\u2014or 15,000 active-duty soldiers\u2014short of its recruiting goal, and the Navy is expected to fall 8,000 short of its recruitment goal in FY 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it comes to the crisis of military recruitment, it is clear that activities like &#8216;Drag Story Time&#8217; only weaken cohesion and morale and further degrade the recruitment and retention of men and women serving our country in uniform,&#8221; Daines wrote in a Tuesday letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.<\/p>\n<h3>Denial and Cosponsors<\/h3>\n<p>Austin, when asked in a March House Armed Services Committee hearing about drag shows on military bases, repeatedly insisted that &#8220;drag shows are not something that the Department of Defense supports or funds.&#8221; However, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.) cited several news reports of drag shows on U.S. bases in Nevada, Montana, and Germany during the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Republican senators Tom Cotton (Ark.), Kevin Cramer (N.D.), Ted Budd (N.C.), and Marco Rubio (Fla.) cosponsored the bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our military\u2019s mission is clear: to provide the military forces needed to deter and win wars and to protect the security of our country and our allies,&#8221; Daines said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans on Tuesday introduced a bill to ban taxpayer-funded drag queen shows on military bases, calling the shows a &#8220;gross misuse of taxpayer funds.&#8221; The bill, sponsored by Sen. Steve Daines (R., Mont.), prohibits using Department of Defense funds and facilities &#8220;to host, advertise, or otherwise support an adult cabaret performance,&#8221; which the bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":1928563,"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":[544],"tags":[6094,7008,6573,6145,7069,4543,6203,10753,4505,23081,3710,5349],"class_list":["post-1928562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-aims","tag-ban","tag-base","tag-citing","tag-drag","tag-funds","tag-gop","tag-gross","tag-military","tag-misuse","tag-shows","tag-taxpayer"],"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\/1928562","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\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}