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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg have been arguing publicly this week ever since Boebert took credit for bridge funding in her district that she voted against in Congress and Buttigieg called her out.
Now she’s trying to get back at him… by making fun of him for raising kids while gay.
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Earlier this week, Boebert bragged on X about having “secured” funding for a bridge in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, which is in Colorado’s Third Congressional District. She wrote that she “was thrilled to hear… that my support has helped make this project a reality.”
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The problem was that that funding came through the Biden administration’s Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program, which was funded by Congress through the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that Boebert voted against. And she didn’t just vote against it – she excoriated the bill as “wasteful” and “garbage” and vowed revenge on House Republicans who voted in favor of the “government welfare.”
“Congresswoman, in what way do you believe that your support helped this project?” Buttigieg asked her. “We chose it because it’s a good project, and funded it using President Biden’s infrastructure package, which you voted against.”
Boebert decided she wasn’t going to let this fly and responded by accusing Buttigieg of “chest-feeding” his children. Chest-feeding is a term used by some trans men and nonbinary people to describe feeding their children. Buttigieg is a cisgender gay man, not a trans man, but perhaps Boebert doesn’t know the difference.
“Mayor Pete, maybe you were out chest-feeding and missed my letter, but I personally wrote you about this in June 2022,” she said, before she continued to decry the bill whose funding she was bragging about obtaining just days ago. “Only 13 RINOs in the House voted for your Green New Deal non-infrastructure bill you are touting that wastes hundreds of millions on climate change instead of roads and bridges.”
“And infrastructure grants have been doled out by administrations on both sides for decades so don’t act like you are the sole provider of this funding,” she said, even though an administration can’t give out grants without authorization by Congress, which Boebert voted against.
Mayor Pete, maybe you were out chest-feeding and missed my letter, but I personally wrote you about this in June 2022.
Only 13 RINOs in the House voted for your Green New Deal non-infrastructure bill you are touting that wastes hundreds of millions on climate change instead of… https://t.co/KqwDFuBiL9pic.twitter.com/6MziBeLUTs
The letter she referred to was probably the one she sent to support a grant application in her district in 2022 to get funding from the bill after it had already been passed because a majority of her colleagues – mostly Democrats – voted for it.
People mocked her on social media for turning to homophobic insults because she couldn’t win the actual argument. Other people pointed out that Boebert isn’t even attending her own son’s court hearings – while making time to attend Donald Trump’s trial in New York – so maybe she shouldn’t be mocking other people’s parenting.
The thing is….this funding is from Biden’s bill. And you indeed did vote against it.
Look at you trying so hard. You voted against the Infrastructure Bill that the grants come from. Had it worked out your way the money wouldn’t be there to even be had. The letters from your office personnel after the fact mean nothing. You voted no.
— 🌸 🐾 A to the Z 🐾🌸 (@A_tothe_Z_Amber) May 22, 2024
Nothing says MAGA politician quite like resorting to bigotry when you are called out for your lies.
Then on top of that, you make a point of admitting you didn’t vote for the funding that you are trying to take credit for while being angry about being called out for your lies.
That’s a really long winded way of saying “yes, it’s true”
— Cheesy Gordita Brett (@CreampieOrDie) May 23, 2024
I bet Secretary Pete would’ve stood by and found an attorney for his kid instead of abandoning him.
— Yasmine Mary, ARNP-FNP-C (@yazzy1967) May 23, 2024
Am I missing something?…but you voted AGAINST the bill. How is that supporting the bill? Words are cheap Congresswoman…as a voter I don’t listen to the rhetoric, I look at the action.
Your behavior and your bigotry, as a sitting Member of Congress is absolutely disgusting and revolting.
Hey, Lauren at least he is there for his child. Unlike you, who went to NY to stand with Traitor Trump at his criminal trial, while you IGNORED your own son, and didn’t show…
You are a disgusting excuse for a human. This response is bigoted and beneath the dignity of the office you hold.
— Ramona Jordan 🇮🇱 (@ramonajordan423) May 23, 2024
Bobo-Steals Credit from legislation she voted against.
Bobo Jr-Steals Credit cards from cars he breaks into.
Why does your family have a thing for STEALING?!
— Jean-Luc Potcard™️ (@Captain_Potcard) May 22, 2024
Yeah, and because he’s spending time with his children, they probably won’t end up in prison like all of yours. You voted against the bill you’re taking credit for. You fascist racist homophobic liar.
