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Congressional budget amendments target D.C. Office of LGBTQ Affairs, Human Rights Act

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Two Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced separate amendments this week to the D.C. budget bill that would eliminate funding for the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs and prohibit the city from using its funds to enforce the D.C.

Human Rights Act in cases of discrimination against transgender people. The two amendments, along with as many as 10 other amendments introduced by GOP House members targeting the D.C.

budget, were expected to come up for a vote in the House Rules Committee, which is now considering the D.C. budget bill, during the week of July 22.

Congressional observers have said the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate, as it did last year, was expected to reject most of the House amendments to the D.C.

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