Senator John Kennedy exposes all the things Democrats are demanding we put back in the budget to fund before opening up the government: “Those are the demands”
- $4.2 million for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people in the Western Balkans and Uganda
- $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti
- $500,000 of American taxpayer money for electric buses in Rwanda
- $6 million for media organizations for the Palestinians
- $833,000 for transgender people in Nepal
- $300,000 for a pride parade in Lesotho
- $882,000 for social media and mentorship in Serbia
- $3 million for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia
“We took out, and here's what they want us to put back in — We took that out. The congresswoman says, we're going to shut down the government until you put that back in.”
“Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez in the socialist wing, the loon wing of the Democratic Party says, we're going to shut down government until you put it back in.”