'I smell a rat with orange hair': Congresswoman accuses Trump administration of deliberately starving blue states during crisis

Fresh from a scandal about her personal behavior in a Denver theater, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has been taken down by The Washington Post's Fact-Checker for a claim about federal payments to unauthorized immigrants — which dates back to a hoax that's at least 17 years old and not even relevant to the United States.

“Biden is giving each illegal family $2,200 per month plus a free plane ticket and free medical care," said Boebert in a post on X with millions of views and thousands of reposts. "If you come to this country illegally, you get everything handed to you on a silver platter. If you’re a struggling American citizen, you get nothing. You actually just subsidize this foolishness.”

Speaker Kevin McCarthy unleashed his anger against his own House Republican conference Thursday as chaos erupted after yet another procedural vote on a defense spending bill failed and the clock ticks closer to a GOP-caused shutdown of the federal government.

McCarthy “failed a crucial test Thursday of his ability to unite his fractured Republican caucus as he tries to rally support to pass a spending bill aimed at avoiding a government shutdown at the end of the month,” CNBC adds.

Rebellious Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) now appears to be running the show in the House of Representatives.

Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman reports that Gaetz, shortly after helping tank House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's latest attempt to fund the United States military, emerged from a meeting and advocated a new plan of "pausing consideration of the Pentagon spending bill and moving to bills that cut spending. He mentioned: State-Foreign Ops, Agriculture, Energy and Water."