{"id":484826,"date":"2021-05-08T11:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T15:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=484826"},"modified":"2021-05-08T11:20:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T15:20:43","slug":"democrats-earmark-millions-of-dollars-to-fund-woke-pet-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-earmark-millions-of-dollars-to-fund-woke-pet-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Earmark Millions Of Dollars To Fund \u2018Woke\u2019 Pet Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fdemocrats-earmark-millions-of-dollars-to-fund-woke-pet-projects%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=484826&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-83393800-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Earmarks, or spending designated for specific projects requested by members of Congress, briefly vanished when Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 2011, but they have since returned. Now, Democrats are using them to fund \u201cwoke\u201d pet projects in their home districts under the guise of \u201cdiversity\u201d and \u201cinclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democrats-federally-fund-wokeism\">reported<\/a> that Democrats have earmarked \u201cmillions of dollars in the upcoming spending bill for unique projects that are designed to advance social justice goals.\u201d Fox compiled a list of some of the projects:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"71\">\n<p><em>\u2013$1 million for a \u201ccultural placemaking\u201d initiative designed to celebrate the history and culture of Black Los Angeles by Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif. The\u00a0project\u00a0is described as an\u00a0\u201cinnovative 1.3-mile public\/private streetscape improvement\u201d to celebrate Black culture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013In Wisconsin, Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan is asking for $1 million to plan and construct a 55,000-square-foot\u00a0space\u00a0for Black enterprise, art, history, performance and culture.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013Illinois Democrat Rep. Cheri Bustos asked for $750,000 to create a \u201cYouth Equity\u00a0Center\u201d that would help children address the \u201cnecessary social determinants of health to be successful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is requesting $742,000\u00a0for a\u00a0program\u00a0that will provide a space for \u201cinclusion and healthy discussions around difficult issues such as racism, gender discrimination and cultural bias.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013Rep. Donald Payne Jr., D-N.J., earmarked $1.1 million for a \u201cCenter\u00a0for Child and Human Development\u201d that would include \u201cintegrated education, human services and social work\u201d in order to\u00a0prepare students to \u201cchallenge unequal structures and systems around race, age and social class.\u201d The center\u2019s programs\u00a0would\u00a0fill the place of\u00a0school counseling jobs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013In California, Rep. Barbara Lee, has asked for $1 million to provide \u201cculturally relevant\u201d medical\u00a0services\u00a0to the Black\u00a0community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013An additional $1 million is\u00a0being allotted by Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Pa., for \u201chealth equity\u00a0clinics\u00a0that provide primary and preventive health care services.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., requested\u00a0funding\u00a0for\u00a0$455,020 for \u201cincreased access, equity and diversity in health careers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013Ohio Democrat Rep. Joyce Beatty earmarked $482,500 for a new institute focused on \u201cthe interdisciplinary nature of scholarship on race, racial inequality, and social policy.\u201d The goal of the institute is to advance policies and approaches that will \u201ceffectively support more socially equitable outcomes\u201d in health, education, public safety and other areas for people of all races. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013Progressive \u201cSquad\u201d member Rep. Ayanna Soyini Pressley, D-Mass., requested $286,000 in funding to purchase technology and \u201cculturally relevant\u201d read aloud books that support the goal of \u201coffering a more equitable and relevant literacy curriculum to students\u201d in public schools.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to these earmarks, Fox reported, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) requested $166,000 for an \u201cequity and inclusion\u201d program at Lincoln University, while Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) sought $81,000 for a \u201csocial-emotional\u201d learning program in his home state.<\/p>\n<p>The requested funds go to programs that sound acceptable, using current woke terms, but they are just buzzwords for teaching children that America is irredeemably racist and, often, that white people are inherently bad.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>\u00a0member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earmarks, or spending designated for specific projects requested by members of Congress, briefly vanished when Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 2011, but they have since returned. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277565,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-83393800-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats Earmark Millions Of Dollars To Fund \u2018Woke\u2019 Pet Projects","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-83393800-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats Earmark Millions Of Dollars To Fund \u2018Woke\u2019 Pet Projects","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484826","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}