Lauren Boebert

Boebert rents DC apartment from Koch lobbying exec: report

Far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) has maintained a hyper-MAGA focus during her two terms in Congress. Boebert, a Donald Trump loyalist, has been highly critical of the GOP establishment and often recites MAGA rhetoric — promising to "drain the swamp" and claiming to detest the "Washington way of pandering to lobbyists, special-interest groups, and partisan politics."

But according to Business Insider's Brent D. Griffiths, Boebert has rented an apartment in Washington, D.C. from an exec for Americans for Prosperity — the advocacy group associated with billionaire Charles Koch and his late brother David Koch.

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Lauren Boebert sparks clash with 'hateful' attack on Biden official: 'People deserve dignity and respect'

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) sparked a clash on the House floor after singling out a Department of Defense official for scorn.

The Colorado Republican proposed for the second time in two months an amendment to a government spending bill that would reduce the salary of Shawn Skelly, the highest-ranking transgender official serving in the Defense Department, under the Holman rule allowing lawmakers to target specific federal employees for salary cuts or firing.

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'Political pyromaniacs' like Matt Gaetz are auditioning for Fox News: ex-GOP adviser

Republican lawmakers such as Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert are nothing more than "political pyromaniacs" who are simply auditioning for a Fox News role, according to a former Republican political adviser.

Former GOP campaign consultant and Lincoln Project adviser Tara Setmayer appeared on The Katie Phang Show on MSNBC on Sunday, and was asked about what's going on with House Republicans. She previously said the Trump campaign has "done nothing but sucker his supporters."

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‘Traditional values’ Republican accused of extra-marital affair with lobbyist

The wife of a family-values Republican Congressman has filed for divorce – accusing her husband of cheating on her multiple times.

Melody Duncan, who is married to Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), started divorce proceedings Friday, the Daily Beast reported.

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Lauren Boebert: Republicans have started calling me 'domestic terrorist'

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) complained that she had been called a "domestic terrorist" by members of her own party.

During an interview on the War Room podcast with Steve Bannon on Saturday, Boebert revealed that there had been some Republican infighting over how to fund the government.

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Drag queen from Boebert's date's bar says congresswoman lied about relationship

Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert lied when she said she was on a first date with the man seen behaving badly with her in security video from a Denver performance of Beetlejuice, Newsweek reported.

Quinn Gallagher is a co-owner of the Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar in Aspen. According to a drag queen who has performed at the bar, Boebert has been seeing him for some time.

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'Bogus': Lauren Boebert busted for pushing 17-year-old immigration hoax

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.”

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Millionaire Republicans condemned for pushing huge cuts to Medicaid and food benefits

Rep. Ilhan Omar on Wednesday condemned her Republican colleagues for proposing a budget resolution that includes massive cuts to key aid programs while backing an extension of giveaways for the wealthy and large corporations.

"We are in the midst of a shutdown crisis because Republicans can't even organize their own caucus to pass funding levels that were already agreed to," Omar (D-Minn.) said during the House Budget Committee's markup of the new resolution. "And now they launch some of the most radical cuts to healthcare, to housing assistance, to food assistance, to the postal office, and nearly every program under the sun—all while doing nothing to rein in our nearly trillion-dollar Pentagon budget or the trillions they've handed out to millionaires and billionaires through the Trump tax cuts."

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John Fetterman reveals how Republicans can get him to wear a suit to work

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has been taking criticism from Republicans all week for wearing a sweatshirt to work – but now he's revealed that Republicans have it in their power to get him to dress more formally.

In a press release issued by the senator's office on Wednesday, Fetterman said that "if those jagoffs in the House stop trying to shut our government down, and fully support Ukraine, then I will save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor next week."

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Bar owned by man seen fondling Lauren Boebert in theater video receives a flood of negative reviews

The bar owned by the man seen in security footage fondling the breasts of Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert as the two attended a performance of the musical Beetlejuice in a Denver theater had been hit with a wave of negative reviews, TMZ reported.

“Been there often. Won’t be back. The owner has disreputable friends,” one person in regards to the Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar on Yelp, saying that owner Quinn Gallagher is “disruptive & disrespectful in public places.”

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Kevin McCarthy's 'nihilistic tormenters' have created a 'legislative train wreck' for the GOP: analysis

The House GOP is in a state of chaos at exactly the moment that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) needs them to come together and vote on keeping the government open, lamented political analyst Stephen Collinson for CNN on Wednesday.

"Days of recriminations between far-right hardliners, moderates, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his nihilistic tormentors reached a new peak on Tuesday in extraordinary scenes of inter-party infighting on the south side of the US Capitol," wrote Collinson. "The legislative train wreck made clear that more is now at stake than McCarthy’s loosening grip on a job he craved for years and the capacity of the GOP to fulfill the chamber’s most basic function – setting a budget to run the country."

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Boebert's 'anti-feminist' family values triggered 'Beetlejuice' scandal: columnist

Rep. Lauren Boebert's lewd behavior in a Colorado theater is a direct consequence of the conservative insistence on marrying young, according a new column.

The Colorado Republican was caught on security footage engaged in what traditionalists might euphemistically call "heavy petting" with her male companion before they were expelled from a family-friendly production of "Beetlejuice: The Musical."

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'Grabbing the hog during a live musical': John Fetterman hits back at GOP critics with brutal Boebert slam

This week's decision by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to relax the Senate dress code has led to widespread criticism and mockery from Republican lawmakers and commentators directed at Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), who is notorious for wearing sweats and a hoodie and who is thought to have been the main reason for the rule change.

Undaunted by the criticism, Fetterman hit back on Tuesday, dismissing his critics' choice of priorities with a brutal sideswipe at another member of Congress who recently made the news for how she presented herself in public.

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