(The Center Square) – Taxpayer dollars going through “a loophole to promote far-left, radical ideology” needs to stop, says North Carolina’s junior senator as he seeks to codify an action of the president.
Promoting Human Flourishing in Foreign Assistance Act, filed by Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., would prevent American foreign assistance from being used to fund abortion, promote abortion, or to promote what he calls “discriminatory equity ideology and radical gender ideology.”
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