The GOP Senate accuses Democrats of having demanded foreign aid for LGBT projects

A republican of the Senate argued that the Senate Democrats demand tens of millions of dollars in foreign aid for LGBT projects, pastry cooking lessons, electric buses and more in exchange for reopening the government.

The Democrats of the Senate, led by the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., remained firmly in their position according to which unless an agreement is concluded to expire the Obamacare tax credits, they will not offer the votes necessary to reopen the government.

But Senator John Kennedy, R-La., Accused the Senate on Friday that the requests of his colleagues go beyond their health push and are motivated by the “the socialist wing” of the Democratic Party, and more precisely, by the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y.

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Senator John Kennedy, R-La., Expresses himself like Neera Tanden, nominated for the Director of the Management and Budget Office, testifies to a senatorial committee of the budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 10, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker / Pool / AFP)

“I do not think that Senator Schumer was the responsible person, because Senator Schumer is not the leader of the socialist wing of his party, the Ocasio-Cortez, the deputy Ocasio-Cortez,” said Kennedy. “She directs the show.”

When it was contacted to comment, the Ocasio-Cortez office pointed out the Fox News Digital Office to an interview that she made NBC News On the statements of the Republicans that she led the position of the Democrats.

Ocasio-Cortez called the claims that she directed the “ridiculous” spectacle and accused the Republicans who had closed the government.

“It is so important to understand that these people all speak, they all speak, they negotiate with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and democratic leadership, and the Democrats are united for this purpose,” she said.

He argued that the Democrats of Congress, motivated by the far left, wanted to unlock the funding that the Republicans and the White House had canceled earlier this year in the attractions of $ 9 billion.

The legislator listed nearly $ 20 million in foreign aid funding on which he allegedly alleged that the Democrats had his eyes, including $ 4.2 million for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, queer and intersex people in Western Balkans and Uganda, $ 3.6 million Zambia.

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The representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y., denies the assertion that she “directs the show” within the Democratic Party. (Fox News)

He also accused Congress Democrats of looking for hundreds of thousands of electric buses in Rwanda, transgender people in Nepal, a pride parade in Lesotho and for social media and mentoring in Serbia.

“I could spend the rest of the afternoon here,” said Kennedy. “We have removed it all.”

Kennedy’s office did not provide details to Fox News Digital when he was specifically asked for where the funding he referred to be found.

And the objective of the Democrats in their counter-proposition to the continuous resolution of Republicans (CR) did not include a repeal of the cancellation package, which saw billions of foreign aid canceled earlier this year.

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The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., and the minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries Chamber, DN.Y., on the left, hold a press conference on the GOP reconciliation bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP photo / J. Scott Applewhite, file)

However, their CR does not include a provision which would cancel the broader package of cancellations adopted earlier this year which canceled billions of foreign aid funds.

And the Democrats of the Senate remained optimistic by their request that the Republicans of the Senate must negotiate with them on an agreement for the subsidies of the Act respecting affordable care (ACA) to obtain their votes to reopen the government.

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“We have asked the Republican leaders for months to sit and talk to us, talk to us. They refused us and made us closure,” said Schumer. “They thought they could go and threaten us and threaten us and scare us. It does not work, because my caucus and my democrats are categorical that we must protect the health care of the American people.”

Fox News contacted Schumer’s office comments but did not hear immediately.