Lauren Boebert compares authorities funding invoice to a Diddy ‘freak-off’ | EUROtoday

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Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert tried to articulate her opposition to a authorities spending bundle invoice by evaluating it to “Freak Offs” – the alleged intercourse acts the place Sean “Diddy” Combs coerced and drugged girls to get them to take part for his pleasure.

“This CR, this continuing resolution, that we’re going to vote on today, it’s going to screw our country more times over than a Diddy Freak Off,” Boebert mentioned on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast Wednesday.

The decision the far-right congresswoman was referring to, is a chunk of laws that may stop a fast-approaching authorities shutdown by persevering with to fund the federal authorities at present spending ranges.

She known as the federal government’s present funding “chaos” and “madness” whereas escalating it to the peak of the allegations in opposition to Diddy.

Combs, a music mogul, was charged with three federal crimes, together with intercourse trafficking and racketeering, for allegedly operating a felony enterprise that aided him in abusing girls bodily, sexually and emotionally for greater than a decade.

Federal prosecutors say the rapper directed “Freak Offs” which allegedly included forcing girls to take part in recorded sexual actions, typically with male industrial intercourse employees, whereas beneath the affect of drugs.

Combs has pleaded not responsible to the counts and his lawyer insists he’s “an innocent man with nothing to hide.” He is at present being held with out bail whereas awaiting trial.

Boebert invoked the reference to “Freak Offs,” seemingly for instance how dire she believes the persevering with decision would damage the U.S.

That persevering with decision features a measure known as the SAVE Act which might require voters to offer proof of citizenship when registering to vote in nationwide elections. Republicans within the House have already handed the measure however the Democratic-controlled Senate and President Joe Biden oppose it.

Boebert joined 13 of her Republican colleagues in voting in opposition to the spending invoice on Wednesday night in an effort to maintain the SAVE Act alive – after former president Donald Trump insisted Republicans ought to vote in opposition to the persevering with decision.

“I love the SAVE Act,” Bobert mentioned. “I believe that President Trump was absolutely right that we should not fund the federal government without ensuring our elections are secure.”

Non-citizens can’t vote in federal U.S. elections and haven’t been permitted to since 1924.

Despite this, Boebert mentioned she is “willing to shut down the federal government” to “secure elections” – a reference to widespread false claims of election fraud.

Congress has till September 30 to give you a plan to maintain the federal government funded or operations would shut down on October 1 – roughly a month earlier than the November presidential election.