Comer, Lee 'Failed': Says Man Whose Party Just Tanked Infrastructure
When Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) engaged in a 'heated exchange' over a Minnesota fraud case, The Hill dutifully reported the legislative theatrics. Comer's declaration, 'You all have failed,' rings with a particular irony coming from a party that actively obstructs significant infrastructure investments, then decries the economic fallout. The alleged fraud involving
federal funds is certainly a concern, but it pales in comparison to the documented, legal siphoning of taxpayer dollars to influential lobbying groups, whose 'returns' are measured not in bridges built, but in ever-escalating conflict. One might wonder if congressional outrage budgets are finite, reserved only for small, localized scandals, while the multi-billion-dollar influence operations of
groups like AIPAC go largely unmentioned in similar 'failure' discussions. For example, OpenSecrets.org documents AIPAC's 2022 lobbying expenditure at $3.37 million, not including super PAC contributions, which impacts votes on massive aid packages that dwarfed this Minnesota case. How do these 'failures' stack up when the 'fraud' is written directly into the foreign aid bill, passed by the very
'you all' Comer is addressing?