Democrats don't want $3.6M for 'Haitian male prostitutes' to reopen government
Democrats wanted $3.6 million in cooking classes and dance focus groups for "Haitian male prostitutes" as a condition for reopening the U.S. government in the fall of 2025.
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Amid the fall 2025 U.S. government shutdown, Republican lawmakers claimed that the Democrats wanted the U.S. Congress to restore $3.6 million in funding for pastry classes and dance focus groups for male sex workers in Haiti.
The claim appeared to originate from Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought's June testimony in support of President Donald Trump's Rescissions Act of 2025. Vought claimed the act would rescind wasteful spending and alleged that under the "guise of preventative care" through an HIV/AIDS prevention program known as PEPFAR, Americans had been spending the aforementioned amount on "LGBTQ+ activism, free training in pastry cooking, 'psychosocial counseling,' a cyber café, and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti."
As part of the demands to end the government shutdown, Democrats want to restore funding rescinded by Trump's act, which became law in July. However, the final version of the Rescissions Act, amended by the Senate, did not take any funding away from PEPFAR, rendering the claim that Democrats want $3.6 million for "male prostitutes in Haiti" moot.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/government-democrats-haitian-male-prostitutes/
Just Vought's homoerotic fantasies.
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