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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., has compared the American practice of handing out aid to foreign countries to a hypothetical absurd scenario in which an individual waters his neighbor’s yard while his own house burns down.
“US foreign aid spending is like watering your neighbor’s yard while your house is on fire,” he tweeted.
The congressman followed up his initial comment by sharing an AI-generated image of House Speaker Mike Johnson holding a hose as flames shoot out of a house behind him.
Fox News Digital reached out to Massie for comment, and a spokesperson confirmed that the image was created with AI, specifically Grok.
Vivek Ramaswamy responded to Massie’s comment about foreign aid by noting, “It’s worse, because unlike a household, actors in the American government are spending other people’s money to do this.”
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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks at a campaign event for Florida Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis at McDivot’s Indoor Sports Pub on Jan. 7, 2024, in Grimes, Iowa. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
President-elect Donald Trump tapped Ramaswamy and Elon Musk to champion government cost reduction through an effort called the Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE).
But getting Republicans on board with drastic spending cuts could prove problematic.
Massie colorfully warned during an interview on WABC radio: “I have Republican colleagues who would rather run over their own mother with a car than vote to cut spending.”
In a post on X, Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas agreed with Massie’s sentiment, noting, “He’s not wrong . . .”
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House Judiciary Committee members Rep. Chip Roy, R-Tx., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., listen as U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before the committee in the building of ‘offices of the Rayburn House on Capitol Hill on June 4, 2024. , in Washington, DC (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Tories have been saving a government spending proposal released at the last minute to avoid the prospect of an imminent one partial government shutdownalthough some Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, are speaking out in favor.
“I was hoping to see @SpeakerJohnson grow a backbone but this pork bill shows he is a weak and weak man. The debt will continue to grow. Eventually the dollar will fail. Democrats are clueless and big government Republicans are complicit. A sad day for America,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said in a post on X.
Fox News Digital reached out for comment from Johnson about Paul and Massie’s comments and the AI-generated image Massie shared, but a Johnson spokesman pointed to the speaker’s interview on “Fox & Friends.”
Johnson noted during the interview that the spending measure throws the government funding issue into March, when Republicans will have control of Congress and the White House, allowing the GOP to “decide spending for 2025.” The speaker also pointed to disaster relief in the measure as well as aid related to farmers.
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“People are calling me ‘NostraThomas’ for accurately predicting that @SpeakerJohnson would use the Christmas recess to force a massive spending bill through Congress. After claiming he wouldn’t, Johnson is adopting a DC tradition that is almost as old fashioned how to decorate Christmas trees,” Massie tweeted. .
Earlier this year, Johnson said there would be no “Christmas omnibus”.
Pressed this week by Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram, Johnson said the measure being considered is “not an omnibus.”
