ACORN, In New GOP Budget Bill, Would Be Defunded Again, Even Though It No Longer Exists
WASHINGTON -- A new short-term budget bill introduced on Monday by House Republicans includes a bizarre provision banning federal funding to anti-poverty group ACORN, despite the fact that the group has already been stripped of federal funding -- and has been defunct for nearly three years.
ACORN leaders announced that the group was disbanding in March 2010, after Congress cut off all federal funding to the organization. The provision in the current GOP budget bill [PDF], buried on page 221 of 269, would duplicate legislation that has already passed, to target an organization that does not exist.
Weeeellllll.... I'm so glad that everyone is protected from funding a group that no longer exists.... Next the GOTP will pass legislation to defund breeding studies on unicorns.... (Well, it's got the word "corn" in it....)
