The main topic of the shutdown debate has been healthcare funding for illegal aliens, but there are some other items that Democrats are demanding, and they will amaze you. These demands are mainly coming from AOC and the socialist wing of the party.
Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana has a way with words, and he recently listed these demands as only he can.
The Tampa Free Press reports:
Louisiana Sen. Kennedy Shreds Dems’ Shutdown Demands: ‘Cooking And Dance Workshops’ In HaitiThe federal government shutdown has taken a dramatic turn, with Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy seizing the Senate floor Friday to lay bare a list of what he calls “wasteful” and “ridiculous” foreign aid projects he claims Democrats are demanding be reinstated before they agree to reopen the government.Kennedy accused Senate Democrats of holding the country “hostage” after they blocked a bipartisan stopgap funding bill, prolonging the shutdown into next week…“We just eliminated money for all forms of media in the Affordable Care Act. Now those are the demands. I’ll mention one more. Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez got very, very upset, as did the socialist wing of the party, when the president sent over what’s called a rescission package. Basically, President Trump just said we want you to take some stuff out of the budget that we think is wasteful, and we did,” Kennedy said. “And that upset the congresswoman. She’s entitled to be upset if she wants to, but that really upset the socialist wing of the party. And so we took out, and here’s what they want us to put back in.”The list of projects Kennedy claimed Democrats are insisting on restoring includes:
- $3.6 million for cooking and dance workshops for male prostitutes in Haiti.
- Over $4.2 million for LGBTQ projects in the Western Balkans and Uganda.
- $6 million to subsidize Palestinian media outlets.
- $3 million for circumcision and vasectomies in Zambia.
- More than $833,000 for transgender people in Nepal.
- $500,000 to purchase electric buses in Rwanda.
- $300,000 to sponsor a pride parade in Lesotho.
See the video below:
Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee asks an excellent question about this.
Of course, we all know the answer, don’t we?
Featured image via YouTube.
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