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Rashida Tlaib tells Americans ‘Congress has the money and power’

December 15, 2025 | | Print Article

A terrorist sympathizing lawmaker’s lament about specific congressional spending was met with a reality check about whose money she wants to control.

When not taking time to commiserate with supporters of Hamas in her district, which includes Dearborn, Michigan, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D) espouses the typical leftist views on economics. The latest example of griping over defense spending as opposed to advancing socialism encouraged some reminders about debt and where Congress gets resources to begin with.

Captioning a video message released after the passage of the $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) out of the House with a vote of 312-112, Tlaib wrote, “Congress has the money and the power to feed every family, house every neighbor, and guarantee health care for every single person but instead, my colleagues choose to line their own pockets by supporting endless war. Our communities deserve better.”

Along with her feeble argument in support of socialized services, the congresswoman pushed her own legislation, dubbed the Stop Politicians Profiting From War Act as though defense spending hinged on lobbyists instead of a national security imperative.

She also released a statement that encouraged voters to “Imagine if our government funded our communities like they fund war.”

“It’s a sick vicious cycle. Another record-breaking military budget is impossible to justify when Americans are sleeping on the streets, unable to afford groceries to feed their children, and racking up massive amounts of medical debt just for getting sick,” contended Tlaib in part as she offered a nod to her objections to Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza. “My colleagues drool at the opportunity to fund war and genocide, but when it comes to universal health care, affordable housing, and food assistance, they suddenly argue that we simply can’t afford it.”

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The Michigan lawmaker’s claims of “disgustingly misplaced” priorities didn’t land the way she likely intended as, especially in light of reports of massive fraud in Minnesota — some of it looking at the Somali community alleged to have funneled taxpayer money to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab — social media users called out how the Democratic Party’s policies had cleared a path for “refugees” to “defraud those communities.”

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Still more saw fit to give Tlaib a lesson on how basic economics worked. Namely, users reminded the first-generation Michigander that Congress generates no revenue of its own, and the funds she so desperately wanted to use to facilitate a redistribution of wealth were being taken from hardworking, taxpaying Americans, in many cases, tired of struggling to make ends meet, while others, fully capable of supporting themselves, live off of their labor.

“Congress has forcibly taken that money from the people. Where in the Constitution is Congress given authority to take taxpayer money and redistribute it? Where am I made responsible for feeding every family and housing every neighbor?” wrote one X user as another suggested, “I take this as a threat. You should too.”

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