In a recent fiery speech on the floor of the United States Senate, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) spoke about the addiction to ‘Spending Porn” of his colleagues on the Left.
“Taxpayers don't want to continue with the Washington way. They want to save some money. Americans are tired of spending more to live worse,” Kennedy said.
Defending Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) mission, Kennedy said “They don't like Elon because of the way he dresses. But they never criticize what he's finding because they can't. It's ‘Spending Porn’.” Kennedy remarked that the Democrats don’t like DOGE’s findings because they can’t defend the spending.
Kennedy said, “One of the issues Trump ran on, he said it almost every day, was going through the entire budget and review all the spending line by line. He’s doing that.”
As the hysterics on the Left increase as DOGE reveals waste, fraud, and abuse Kennedy said, “We need all the help we can get. The world is not going to spin off its axis because we look at the books.”
He was not shy in calling out Dems for screaming about the process but ignoring the massive waste DOGE uncovered. “They never questioned their spending. But, that's what Mr. Musk is doing and they don’t like it one bit.”
Kennedy’s speech on the Senate floor focused on revelations of USAID for funding of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, electric vehicles, contraception, LGBTQ+ activism, and terrorist groups.
Kennedy rolled off a list of things funded by USAID that have been found by DOGE and should be eliminated from the budget because they do not align with American taxpayer interests. USAID has 10,000 employees and every year they give away $40 billion.
· $122 million to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations.
· USAID gave millions of dollars to organizations in Gaza. Recipients of the money called for their lands to be cleansed from the impurity of Jews.
· USAID gave 1.5 million dollars to a Serbian LGBTQ group.
· $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala.
· Subsidies for electric vehicles in Vietnam.
· $7.9 million of taxpayer money to teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language.
· USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India.
· $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica.
· $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem.
· $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia.
· $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal.
· $57 million to promote “community resilience” and violence prevention in Tunisia.
Kennedy said, “Why aren’t my colleagues talking about that? The American people are sick and tired of Washington denying reality. They ought to be asking Musk to go through every agency and look at every budget. That's what the American people want. They don't want to talk about the process."
Americans get up every day and go to work, obey the law, pay their taxes, try to do the right thing for their kids, and save a little money for retirement. “They had to live through 20% inflation under President Biden. They understand what Musk is doing. They understand spending porn and wasting taxpayer money and they want it to stop,” said Kennedy.
“The last administration tried to convince us that we were living in a crime-free world where inflation was temporary and the border was secure. And the American people didn't buy it. You know why? Because it wasn't true,” Kennedy concluded.