Biden Used American’s Taxes To Make “Maps More Gay”

Bureaucratic excess was on full display during a recent congressional hearing which revealed that the Biden administration’s State Department had been funneling taxpayer dollars into a project aimed at “making maps more gay.”

During a House Foreign Affairs Committee session, Americans saw Chairman Brian Mast grilling Undersecretary Jessica Rodgers about a grant supporting “Queering the Map;” an online platform where users pin personal stories tied to LGBTQ+ experiences on a digital world map. The official’s response? That the initiative was essentially designed to make traditional maps “more gay” by highlighting queer narratives in countries like Czechia and Slovakia.

Whilst this may sound like fringe satire, it was a real program that was part of a broader slate of grants exposed during the hearing, including millions earmarked for promoting atheism in Nepal, and funding transgender operas in Colombia.

This revelation, which surfaced during oversight of USAID and State Department spending, underscores a fundamental problem: when government grows too large and too unaccountable, it drifts far from its core responsibilities which are defending the nation, securing borders, maintaining basic infrastructure and into the realm of ideological pet projects and outright waste.

The “gay maps” fiasco is merely the latest symptom of a bloated federal machine that prioritizes niche social engineering over the practical needs of everyday Americans. It’s also a stark reminder of why limited government isn’t just a political preference but a fiscal necessity.

Whilst some may believe this is an isolated incident, several U.S. administrations squandered public funds on bizarre experiments and initiatives, often hidden from view until declassified documents or watchdogs drag them into the light.

Consider the infamous “Gay Bomb” proposal from the 1990s. The U.S. Air Force’s Wright Laboratory actually entertained the idea of developing a non-lethal weapon that would release aphrodisiacs over enemy troops, theoretically inducing “homosexual behavior” and disrupting unit morale.

Although the “gay bomb” was never built, the concept was documented in declassified memos resulting in a waste of time and resources on what amounted to science-fiction warfare. This kind of outlandish research flourishes in a defense budget that has ballooned to over $800 billion annually.

Then there is the troubling record of animal testing funded through agencies like the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) during Dr. Anthony Fauci’s lengthy tenure.

Millions of dollars went toward experiments in which beagle puppies were confined in cages and subjected to sandflies carrying parasites. The excuse was to study leishmaniasis, a disease rarely seen in the United States. Other grants funded the force-feeding of toxic drugs to young dogs, with “de-barking” surgeries performed to silence their cries.

Despite bipartisan lawmakers condemning these experiments as unnecessary and inhumane, particularly given the availability of modern alternatives such as computer modeling, the ever sprawling health bureaucracy with an NIH budget exceeding $50 billion saw such projects persist.

These examples are the result of institutional mission creep which inevitably leads to ethical lapses and the squandering of enormous sums of money.

Going further back, the CIA poured roughly $20 million into “Acoustic Kitty,” a 1960s program that attempted to transform house cats into field operatives by surgically implanting them with microphones and antennas. The scheme collapsed when the cats proved, predictably, too easily distracted. One test subject was reportedly struck by a car.

Meanwhile, the Stargate Project which ran from the 1970s through 1995, consumed another $20 million to investigate “remote viewing,” the idea that trained psychics could mentally spy on enemy installations. A formal review later concluded the program had yielded nothing of intelligence value, yet it continued for decades in the shadows of a massively funded defense apparatus.

More recently, NIAID grants were funneled through EcoHealth Alliance to support bat coronavirus research. This included sub-awards to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. While the debate has shifted toward this constituting “gain-of-function” research, the oversight failures and potential pandemic implications have raised serious questions about reckless spending and accountability.

These stories: psychic spies, gay bombs, parasitic puppy experiments, are all indictments of a system in which federal spending has swelled to $6.8 trillion annually, with mounting deficits pushing the debt burden onto future generations.

When the government expands beyond its constitutional roles, the populace must understand that it will inevitably meddle in everything, funding ideological whims and pseudoscience at taxpayer expense.

The “gay maps” hearing was a wake-up call. This kind of waste doesn’t just drain the treasury, but it diverts resources from genuine priorities like repairing crumbling infrastructure, securing the border, and eroding the public trust that governance depends upon.

What’s the solution? Returning to the principles of limited government. Eliminate unnecessary agencies, impose rigorous oversight on discretionary grant-making, and prioritize spending that delivers direct, tangible benefits to citizens.

In a free society, social progress and innovation should emerge from individuals and communities and not the engineering of a bureaucracy in Washington spending money it doesn’t have on causes most Americans never asked for.

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