Crockett spoke at a House Oversight Committee hearing regarding an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Sept. 28, 2023. Crockett went viral for some of her comments calling out former President Donald Trump. Credit: Annabelle Gordon via REUTERS
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, the increasingly popular Democratic lawmaker from Texas, mocked attempts by her Republican colleagues in the House who have been pushing for ways to honor Donald Trump instead of serving their constituents at home.
Deep in a report from the Wall Street Journal on conservative lawmakers' efforts to boost the re-elected president's profile –– as well as their own –– by making his birthday a national holiday or putting his face on Mt. Rushmore, the blunt-talking Crockett dismissed their efforts as a waste of time.
With the Journal using Rep. Claudia Tenney's (R-NY) proposal to make Trump's birthday into a holiday as an example, the Journal is reporting, "Congressional Republicans’ message this session is rare for the volume and limited focus of one category of proposals: unabashed adulation for the 47th president and his agenda, even if some of the bills are more performative than realistic."
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Another proposal from freshman Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) would rename Dulles Airport in the president’s honor, with the far-right conservative also asserting, "Voters across the U.S. 'would love to rename their state ‘The State of Donald Trump.’ ”
According to the report, none of the bills have drawn near enough signatures to be taken seriously enough for a vote despite a Republican majority.
What's more, the Journal notes, "Democrats are snickering at the loyalty exercises—and using them as an opportunity to criticize their Republican colleagues for straying from campaign promises to reduce inflation," with the always quotable Crockett leading the charge.
“At this point, House Republicans should stop filing these desperate, pointless bills that do nothing to bring down the cost of rent or groceries, and just rent one of Elon’s rockets to write ‘Love me Donny’ in the sky in front of Mar-a-Lago,” she joked. “It would be faster.”
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