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'Triggers Your Gag Reflex': John Kennedy Reads Shocking Tax-Funded Programs Ended By Trump Rescissions
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During remarks on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) spoke about programs that were included in President Trump's proposed rescissions.
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Final thing I want to say, Mr. President, next week, President Trump's going to send
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us over what's called a rescission bill. What does that mean? Well, we've got a seven trillion
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dollar budget. I don't know how much of that seven trillion dollars is waste, but every
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fair-minded person would have to agree that there's some money being spent in that seven
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trillion dollars that shouldn't be spent. It just shouldn't. It's wasted money.
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And so President Trump and this Congress made one of its objectives trying to reduce spending.
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Not spending that we need, but spending that needs to be reduced. I call it spending poor.
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And the President has sent us a bill. He said, he's saying to Congress, I want you to reduce
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spending in the current budget by 9.1 billion dollars. And let me tell you what the spending,
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what constitutes the spending I want to reduce. Well, first, 9.1 billion dollars out of a seven
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trillion dollar budget, we're not talking about a lot of money here. We're talking about about one
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tenth of one percent. That's all. That's point one. Point two, you need to look at what the President's
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asking us to cut out. I'll just give you a couple of examples. I didn't make this up.
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The President is saying we're giving three million dollars to Iraq to produce Sesame Street. Maybe we could
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use that money for something else. The President is saying we're giving three million dollars to Zambia
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for circumcisions and vasectomies. The President is saying we don't need to do that. We've got other
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priorities. We're giving five hundred thousand dollars to Rwanda to buy electric buses. The President is
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saying to us, Congress, we don't need to be spending the money on that.
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They're more important things. We're spending $67,000 to give insect powder to kids in Madagascar. I don't
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even know what insect powder is, but the President is asking us to cut it out. We're giving $3,600,000
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to Haiti for pastry cooking classes, for cyber cafes, for dance focus groups, for male prostitutes.
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The President is saying, I don't think so. I don't think that the American people support giving their
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hard-earned money to male prostitutes in Haiti. So he's asking us to cut it out.
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He's asking us to reduce the budget by $833,000 because some of President Biden's bureaucrats
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gave a contract to transgender people, sex workers, and their clients in Nepal.
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The President is saying, I don't want to do that. And he's right. That's enough. You get the idea.
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That's what I call it spending porn. It triggers your gag reflex. You look at this stuff and you go,
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what in God's name? Who decided to do this? Well, Congress didn't. The bureaucrats did.
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It's money we appropriated, but we didn't tell them to go spend money $833,000 and give to sex workers in
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Nepal. They just took the money we appropriated and used it for that. And so the President is asking,
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us to do what's called a rescission, to cancel the spending. Now, I have listened, I've been here
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eight years, Mr. President, and I've listened to a whole bunch of people talk about the need to reduce
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spending. But you got to watch what people do, not what they say, because talk is cheap. And around here,
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I've learned pretty quickly that reducing spending, it's like going to heaven. I want to go to heaven.
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I bet you want to go to heaven, Mr. President. I bet our guests in the in the gallery want to go to
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heaven. But everybody wants to go to heaven. Raise your hand if you're ready to take the trip today.
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Most people, you are, sir, and I admire that, but most people want to live a little longer.
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And that's the way it is with reducing spending around here. I want to reduce spending. I support
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it, but not just yet, because I've got this project. Well, and I've listened to that.
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And I've especially listened to it for the past hundred days. Go get them, President Trump. Reduce
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that spending. We're behind you a thousand percent. Well, he has. He has.
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One-tenth of one percent. He's asking us to reduce.
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And I'm not saying senators shouldn't ask questions and make some changes if they need to be made. But
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here's the bottom line. It is gut check time. It is gut check time. You either believe in reducing
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spending or you don't. And if you talk the game and say, let's reduce spending and you vote against
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this bill, in my opinion, you ought to hide your head in a bag. Because you will be able to cut
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the hypocrisy with a knife. It's real, real hard, Mr. President, to preach temperance from a bar stool.
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It's gut check time. We need to pass this bill. I yield the floor, Mr. President.
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