Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz highlighted some of the waste found in the latest federal spending bill that was unveiled on Thursday as the deadline for another potential government shutdown looms.
On his “Firebrand” podcast, the Fort Walton Beach Republican announced that he would “emphatically” vote against the proposed $1.2 trillion spending package, which is slated for a House vote today and which has drawn the praise of Senate Democrats.
Gaetz said the bill “continues to advance an unconstitutional process” and “unconstitutional agencies.”
Gaetz also noted that the bill fails to boost border security, funnels money to Planned Parenthood, and funds “all kinds of LGBTQAIXYZ stuff.”
“And what does it do for the American people?” he continued. “Higher prices, more inflation, larger debts, growing deficit — and no political courage to take it on.”
“I’d rather die on the field politically than continue to surrender to America’s defeat and demise,” he added. “And surrender is precisely what this omnibus spending bill does. It surrenders on the border. It surrenders on the budget. It surrenders on the bureaucrats that are choking out the economic freedom of our citizens.”
On X on Thursday, Gaetz provided a few examples of the lard laced into the bill.
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He pointed out that New Jersey’s Democratic senators support giving nearly $500,000 to a state organization that “force-feeds the LGBT agenda in schools.”
“This group assists in finding gender mutilation surgeries for minors and harasses schools that prevent biological men from using women’s bathrooms, participating in women’s sports, and more,” Gaetz posted. “These conversations belong in the home, not at school. This is sickening!”
In another post, Gaetz noted that Wisconsin’s Democratic senator supports roughly $500,000 a group that promotes LGBT programs targeting teenagers.
“Their organization publicly advertises that these minors do not need parental consent to join. They even provide binders, gaffs, and ‘Trans Tape Kits’ to minors in order to help transition children,” Gaetz wrote. “Taxpayer dollars SHOULD NOT be funding this!”
Finally, Gaetz pointed to a request from Connecticut’s Democratic senators who want $155,000 for an organization called “Make The Road CT.”
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“Their Executive Director recently criticized Joe Biden for rightfully calling Laken Riley’s murderer an ‘illegal,’” Gaetz observed. “No taxpayer dollars should go towards an organization that sympathizes with savage illegal killers over American victims.”
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