Rep. Andy Ogles made a social media post Tuesday saying “homosexuality has no place in America,” and then deleted it after drawing criticism from at least one fellow House Republican.

The tweet from Ogles (R-Tenn.) wished his followers “Happy Nuclear Family Month” in an apparent reference to Pride Month, which began Monday.

Rep. Mile Lawler (R-N.Y.) condemned the message as “absolutely idiotic” in a social media post.

“Homosexuality exists. In America,” Lawler wrote on X. “In fact Andy, you have family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and constituents who are gay and lesbian. It doesn’t make them less than or somehow unworthy of being an American.”

House leadership did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Pride Month commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York, which served as a major catalyst for LGBTQ+ rights.

Ogles has been called out for his social media posts in the past. Earlier this year, he faced backlash for posting that “Muslims don’t belong in America.” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries at the time called the Tennessee Republican a “malignant clown and pathological liar who has fabricated his whole life story.”

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins has postponed committee action this week on a slate of government funding bills as Democrats prepare amendments targeting the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” still roiling congressional Republicans.

The Senate Appropriations Committee was scheduled to mark up three funding measures Thursday, but the committee announced Tuesday that the meeting would be rescheduled. The postponement comes as Republicans brace for votes on Democratic proposals to block several controversial Trump administration policies.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said in an interview that he has “already drafted a bunch” of amendments to block the Justice Department from carrying out the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers the administration will not pursue.

“We should just eliminate this taxpayer slush fund altogether. I understand the Trump administration says they’re OK with that now. So let’s just make sure it doesn’t rear its head again,” Van Hollen said.

Those amendments would be for the bill that funds the departments of Commerce and Justice, along with NASA, federal science programs and the FBI.

“We’ve been able to work cooperatively on some of the big areas, like NASA and some of the other agencies,” said Van Hollen, ranking member on the appropriations panel that funds those agencies. “But there are big issues regarding DOJ.”

Van Hollen said he is also considering amendments related to President Donald Trump‘s decision to forgo relocating the FBI headquarters to suburban Maryland after the site was selected in a decade-long competition. That issue derailed committee approval last year of the bill that funds the FBI.

Collins and Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the Senate’s top Democratic appropriator, have also yet to agree on bipartisan funding totals for the fiscal year that begins in October.

The committee was also set Thursday to consider bills to fund the Department of Agriculture and the FDA, as well as the operations of Congress.

Senate Republicans are proposing a three-year extension of a key surveillance power that would include new guardrails and penalties for intelligence abuses but doesn’t include some of the biggest demands made by a bipartisan coalition of privacy hawks.

A copy of the bill reviewed by Blue Light News would extend the program through June 12, 2029. It also includes a three-year ban on the Federal Reserve issuing a digital currency — a gesture toward House Republican hard-liners who have pushed for a permanent ban.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) took the lead in drafting the bill, which is being circulated ahead of the June 12 to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which targets foreigners abroad but has come under controversy because of its ability to sweep in Americans.

A spokesperson for Cotton didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the legislation, which has not been publicly released but is being privately circulated.

Cotton consulted with Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, as he drafted the bill in hopes of garnering enough bipartisan support to overcome a Democratic filibuster. Speaker Mike Johnson’s team has also been reviewing the text.

However, the push for Democratic support was complicated Tuesday by President Donald Trump’s decision to name Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence. The appointment of Pulte, a close Trump political ally with no known intelligence experience, has fueled concerns from Democrats that he could weaponize the intelligence community against the president’s perceived political enemies.

Warner lambasted the pick during a Senate hearing Tuesday, saying Pulte’s appointment would make it harder to convince fellow lawmakers to renew Section 702 ahead of its looming expiration.

“What qualifications from my standpoint does Mr. Pulte bring to the office? Well, he has shown that he is willing to do anything that President Trump wants, legal or otherwise,” Warner said.

There are also lingering concerns among some far-right Republicans, particularly in the House, that could threaten passage of a long-term deal. One House GOP hard-liner granted anonymity to candidly describe the situation said that “there remain serious concerns.”

The copy of the bill obtained by Blue Light News has some similarities to an extension of the spy program the House passed in April, including new penalties for violating search standards, a requirement for an attorney’s sign-off on some FBI’s searches and additional transparency provisions. It also narrows the definition of an “electronic communications service provider” after Congress previously broadened it in a way that sparked bipartisan concerns, though the change is unlikely to satisfy skeptics of the intelligence community.

The bill also does not include two other major provisions demanded by privacy hawks in the House and Senate: requiring federal officials to obtain a warrant before searching for Americans in databases of intelligence obtained abroad and preventing law enforcement from buying Americans’ information from data brokers without a warrant.

Meredith Lee Hill and John Sakellariadis contributed to this report.