BREAKING: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez incinerates Republicans for secretly stuffing a corrupt $1 million payout for themselves into the spending bill.
MAGA was hoping this jaw-dropping provision would fly under the radar…
“It is great that Democrats have a line of people who are willing to fight for working-class Americans from coast to coast in this country,” Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez said in Congress ahead of the vote on the funding bill.
“Because God forbid that we have a member of the Republican caucus who stands up and actually wants to extend the Affordable Care Act so that people with cancer, insulin, and issues across all sorts of health care issues across this country have their health insurance protected and extended throughout 2026,” she continued.
As always when discussing this shutdown, it should be pointed out that it was caused by Republicans refusing to extend crucial Affordable Care Act subsidies. As a result, healthcare premiums will skyrocket.
“It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give eight members of the United States Senate over a million dollars apiece,” AOC continued. “And we are robbing people of their food assistance and of their health care to pay for it.”
“How is this even on the floor? How can we as members of Congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?” she asked. “That is what this legislation does. In fact, Senator Graham just went before the press earlier today saying he was going to seek well over a million dollars from the American people from this. We cannot support it and we cannot stand for it.”
AOC was referring to the so-called “million-dollar jackpot” provision in the funding bill that will allow eight Republican senators to sue for millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded payouts as an apology for the fact that they were investigated for their roles in the January 6th insurrection. Plain and simple, it amounts to incredibly rich senators looting the public treasury to line their own pockets.
Representative Rosa DeLauro has described the provision as an effort by Republicans to “line their own personal bank accounts with millions of taxpayer dollars” and to “shove taxpayer dollars into their own pockets” despite the fact that the senators in question had their phone records “lawfully subpoenaed under due process by the Department of Justice.”
At least a million dollars of your money will be shelled out to Senators Lindsey Graham, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson , Cynthia Lummis, and Marsha Blackburn.
In the Trump era, it’s open season on your bank account for Republican politicians.
