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Gohmert says Democrats want Americans to 'just smoke some dope' to get past COVID worries

On the closing day of the 2020 legislative session in the U.S. House of Representatives, and when legislators were delivering their one-minute floor speeches, Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert (R) spoke on the floor of the House and pointed the finger at House Democrats and called them out over their refusal to pass a meaningful COVID-19-only bill.

Gohmert said that Democrats didn't want to negotiate with Republicans outside of their "comprehensive" and pork-filled stimulus bill and that this was the reason why the COVID relief was being held up.

As businesses are going bankrupt, my friends across the aisle are allowing them to go bankrupt, basically hilding them hostage and saying, 'we're going to keep letting businesses go broke. We're not going to let you use the money that's sitting there waiting to be used to help these businesses to save them from bankruptcy," said Rep. Gohmert.

The ever-so sarcastic Gohmert then tore into his Democratic colleagues for refusing to use billions of dollars in COVID funding that has already been appropriated, and instead opting to 'Make Ceiling Fans Great Again' and pushing a "dope" bill.

Like last week and this week, all these important things. Let's see. We took care of saving the lives of ceiling fans this week. So, that apparently was very critical," snarked Gohmert before giving an overall assessment of what House Democrats feel Americans should do in dealing with the spreading pandemic.

"So the answer according to the majority of COVID business going bankrupt is just smoke some dope and you won't be nearly as anxious about the loss of your business, the suffering of your family, the isolation of our senior citizens," added Gohmert

Fellow Texas Rep. Michael McCaul (R) also took a swipe at Democratic efforts to avoid the COVID funding.

Democrats like Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who recently lost her reelection to the House, have been blaming stimulus funding legislation, and has specifically cast the blame on Senate Republicans for not passing a previous funding measure that is filled with the "pork" Gohmert spoke of.

Javier Manjarres

Javier Manjarres is a nationally renowned award-winning political journalist. Diverse New Media, Corp. publishes Floridianpress.com, Hispolitica.com, shark-tank.com, and Texaspolitics.com He enjoys traveling, playing soccer, mixed martial arts, weight-lifting, swimming, and biking. Javier is also a political consultant, and has also authored "BROWN PEOPLE," which is a book about Hispanic Politics. Learn more at www.brownpeople.org Email him at Diversenewmedia@gmail.com

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