According to Laura Durso of the progressive Center for American Progress and vice president of the LGBT Research Communications Project at CAP, such an order would provide "a license to discriminate across a wide range of federal programs." In an April interview with USA Today , Durso said, "You can’t have it both ways in this administration as much as they try to say 'we’re going to be a friend of the LGBT community, but give people the right to discriminate against them.”