DC Got Screwed Over by President Obama and Senator Reid
As I feared, late last night President Obama and Congressional Democrats acquiesced to the GOP and allowed the harmful riders on DC’s appropriation bill in order to stop a government shutdown and save family planning funding in the national budget. In doing so they basically threw 600,000 Americans under the bus.
These harmful riders prevent DC from spending its own LOCAL tax dollars on abortions services for low income women, needle exchange programs aimed at reducing the spread of HIV, and also force a school voucher program upon the city which is part of an ideology to gut public schools and use government dollars to fund private ones.
These riders were attached to DC’s budget by GOP House leadership, but Obama and Reid gave in and let them stay on the budget, which means they’ll be next to impossible to get off for the 2012 and 2013 budgets. So they really screwed us here in DC. It’s hard to believe President Obama is now part of the problem…but the facts speak for themselves.
I’ll post some more concrete actions we can take in the next few days, but I urge everyone to come to a rally being organized by DC Vote on Monday, April 11 at 5:00 in front of the Hart Senate Office Building at 2nd and Constitution, NE.
This only re-enforces the fact that STATEHOOD is the only way this stuff goes away…forever.
