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When you’ve been working in Congress as long as I have, you learn to call out hypocrisy when you see it. That’s exactly what I did a few months ago when my colleague Rep. Matt Gaetz tried to use Hunter Biden’s personal substance abuse issues as a diversion during the impeachment hearings. I warned that we should refrain from “the pot calling the kettle black” given Mr. Gaetz’s own troubled past with a D.U.I. arrest. I wasn’t afraid to call him out once before, and now I’m doing it again. We already knew that Matt Gaetz didn’t take this pandemic seriously -- after all, he mocked social distancing guidelines by showing up to the House chamber in a gas mask earlier this year. But now, his actions are jeopardizing our nation’s response when there are lives at stake. After peddling right-wing conspiracies on Fox News, Matt Gaetz played an instrumental role in cutting vital funding for coronavirus research. A $3.4 million grant for studying viruses like COVID-19 was slashed by President Trump at Gaetz’s will. John, there’s simply too much at stake to allow people like Matt Gaetz to jeopardize our response to the coronavirus. Chip in to my re-election campaign so I can keep holding Gaetz and his misdeeds accountable.
I think it’s especially ironic that Gaetz feels so comfortable cutting funding for critical research considering he has no trouble using nearly $200,000 in taxpayer dollars to pay a donor friend for office space. Matt Gaetz’s tenure in Congress has been mired by hypocrisy. As long as he keeps this behavior up, I’ll continue to call it like I see it. America deserves better than what Gaetz has delivered in Congress. Chip in to support bold leadership that stands up to Trump sycophants like him. → Thank you, -- Hank Johnson
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