Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pennsylvania, is going after the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs over relocation plans.
The Chiefs are currently planning to build a state-of-the-art stadium in Kansas City, Kansas, and aim to be officially relocated by the 2031 season. The lawmaker took to X and called Clark Hunt, the team’s owner, “the biggest Welfare King in America.”
Look:
Clark Hunt: the biggest Welfare King in America. Billions of taxpayer money going to this billionaire, while working people suffer. Just a disgrace. https://t.co/2fX5kTUbWg
— Congressman Brendan Boyle (@RepBrendanBoyle) December 26, 2025
“Kansas outbid Missouri, and the former state’s STAR (Sales Tax and Revenue) bonds will be covering up to 70% of the cost of the new stadium. Missouri did approve a plan this past summer that would pay up to half of the cost of the new stadiums for not only the Chiefs, but MLB’s Kansas City Royals as well,” Fox News reported.
Hunt believes the benefits of the move will be “monumental.”
“The benefit to the entire region will be monumental,” he said. “A stadium of this caliber will put Kansas City in the running for Super Bowls, Final Fours, and other world class events. A brand new training facility and headquarters will allow the Chiefs to continue to attract top talent. And the vision for a new mixed-use district will rival that of any sports-anchored development anywhere in the country.”
Lawmakers in Kansas wasted no time in approving the state’s coverage of 60% of the stadium’s cost, which will be funded by “state sales and liquor tax revenues in a defined area around it,” according to the report.
X users weighed in on Boyle’s reaction:
Shameful. Let’s give nothing back to the fan. Wish someone could come up with legislation to kill Personal Seat Licenses. Price the working man that lives for Sundays (that helped make the NFL what is) out of the market.
— MikeBell929 (@MikeBellATL) December 27, 2025
???
Kansas is going to own the stadium that the Chiefs occupy. Their voters chose to do this. It’s a profit-making enterprise for the city and the state.
Kansas happens to be a well run state (even despite the Dem governor!) that has resources to invest.
— Chris (@chriswithans) December 27, 2025
You host two other “welfare kings” yourself in Jeffrey Laurie and the Rooney family. They took hundreds of millions from PA 20-25 years ago to build their stadiums…
If you feel so strongly states supporting local franchises is a “disgrace,” perhaps you should tell the Steelers…
— Mark Valorian (@markvalorian) December 27, 2025
It’s more extreme with Kansas to be sure, but you just described 95% of all NFL owners.
— Jack Quinn (@jq6008) December 26, 2025
Working people love the Chiefs.
— Rick Raanes (@LPTRockStar) December 27, 2025
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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