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Slay, King: 'Sassy' Thomas Massie UNLOADS on Congressional Spending in a Series of Tweets

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One of our favorite times of year is Senator Rand Paul's annual Festivus 'Airing of Grievances' about the pork in federal spending bills. Last Christmas, Paul exposed millions of dollars of spending Congress authorized for -- among other things -- feline cardio studies ... in Russia, a 'monkey island' for the NIH, and a transgender monkey study for Tony Fauci. What is it with Washington and monkeys? 

Wait ... don't answer that. 

But Dr. Paul is not alone in Washington as a spending hawk. Each year, he also names the (far too few) elected officials who join him in opposing wasteful and corrupt spending that gets crammed into omnibus bills. 

And someone he always names is Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie. This week, after the Senate released a series of mini-omnibus bills, 'Sassy' Massie showed us why he is a kindred spirit with Paul through a series of tweets that not only address wasteful spending but also the corrupt machine in Washington that enables it time and time again. 

The tweet Massie is quoting here is from Libs of TikTok, who showed the horrible details of an earmark for Pennsylvania, requested by Senators Casey and Fetterman, which ostensibly funded an LGBT 'community center.' As Libs of TikTok exposed, what the center actually does is organize fetish and kink parties. 

And the Senate asked for $1 million for this 'community center.' 

There is good news on this earmark, though. Thanks to Chaya Raichik and Massie's exposure, the Senate took a nearly unheard-of action: it actually voted to strip out the earmark. Fetterman even withdrew his support (one has to wonder if he ever knew what he was sponsoring in the first place).

But, like we said, that almost never happens. And it wouldn't have happened this time if Raichik and Massie had been silent about it. 

Massie also takes issue with another component of the spending: undesignated funding. 

Of course, this is an intentional tactic. Just give NIH a huge pile of money and don't tell them what they can use it for. Then, when representatives like Massie oppose it, their detractors will shout, 'WHY DON'T YOU SUPPORT CANCER RESEARCH, YOU MONSTER?'

But Massie doesn't play that game. Nor should he.  

Of course, there is also the seemingly silly funding ... that is actually quite nefarious (or at least potentially so). 

Notice how it is written. The electronic tags are needed to 'comply' with a federal animal disease traceability rule. Except that rule was enacted years ago and there was no need for federally funded electronic tags to comply with it. 

Senator Mike Lee and Congressman Chip Roy joined Massie in calling this earmark out. 

And don't think that Massie reserves his condemnation for just Democrats. He saved one of his best tweets this afternoon by calling out EIGHT earmarks totaling $34 million that were all put into the bill -- with no vote on them -- by a certain Republican senator. 

Recognize the name?

Lindsey Graham gets $34 million in pet projects and there is nothing any of us can do or say about it. 

Given the current federal debt, this is in no way sustainable. 

Graham doesn't care. And far too many Republican senators seem to be with him in not caring. After all, it won't affect them. 

'Aunt Bea.' LOL. That was funny. (Sorry, sometimes you just have to laugh at how corrupt they all are.)

To be clear, the main problem that Massie is calling out here is not necessarily that earmarks exist. As we mentioned before, federal spending SHOULD be specific and directed. 

No, the problem is, as Massie and others pointed out, that these earmarks are created and inserted behind closed doors, with no transparency and no vote. And they can only be removed under extraordinary circumstances (like if they are funding a fetish/BDSM club in Pennsylvania). 

The other problem is that there are far too few elected representatives in Washington like Massie, Paul, Roy, and Lee who will pay any attention to these. Most in Congress just demand the bills be passed while fearmongering about the horror of a potential government shutdown.

The result? Unlimited and out-of-control earmarks.

In case you were wondering, those four screenshots alone show more than $55 million in earmarks just from Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand alone. And many of those earmarks are for local improvements, which the federal government should not be funding. Others are for colleges with multi-billion-dollar endowments that absolutely do not need federal money. And so on, and so on ...

If you weren't convinced that Washington is a giant grift at our expense, Massie's tweets should remove any doubt. 

Thomas Massie is a rancher. He also is an engineer with Bachelor's and Master's degrees from MIT in electrical and mechanical engineering. Yet he often explains these issues in the simplest of language that anyone could understand.

What seems perfectly clear is that we need fewer career politicians in Washington and more people like Sassy Massie. 

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