Republicans Defend Democrat After TMZ Report Sparks Controversy | EUROtoday

Congress is presently in recess for 2 weeks amid a partial authorities shutdown that began in February and has left different authorities workers working without spending a dime.

The resultant chaos impressed TMZ to ask the general public to ship photographs of politicians vacationing in the course of the shutdown.

On Wednesday, TMZ added Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) to the ever-growing listing and revealed a photograph of him working because the timekeeper at his 12-year-old son’s basketball sport.

The Florida Democrat hadn’t commented on the story as of Wednesday afternoon, however a lot of his Republican colleagues appeared to suppose that TMZ’s tried takedown was off-base.

Moskowitz’s timekeeping at his baby’s basketball sport supplied higher optics than “a childless Senator at Disney,” wrote Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), taking a swipe at fellow Republican Graham on X.

Other Republican members of Congress and conservative media figures additionally got here to Moskowitz’s protection, lauding him as a “Great Dad” and calling his help for his son’s crew “wholesome.”

And just a few folks prompt a tongue-in-cheek conspiracy concept that Moskowitz or his staffers had planted the story.