Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) called the Senate “very corrupt” amid a partial government shutdown and in the wake of some recent tensions between the chambers of Congress.
“I also have respect for our Speaker, and this is not directed at him. The Senate is very, very corrupt. Many of the Senators we would consider our ‘friends’ don’t want the filibuster removed because they don’t actually want President Trump’s agenda to succeed,” Luna said in a lengthy Sunday post on the social platform X.
“Many of these people have been in office for far too long and think they are the ones in power, not [the president of the United States (POTUS)],” she added.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) recently held up a government funding bill over language that would repeal a provision letting senators sue if their phone records were rounded up in former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation.
The provision passed in the bill to end last year’s government shutdown and caused anger in the House, with House members not included in the provision.
On Friday, the Senate voted by a wide margin to pass a funding package featuring five regular appropriations bills and a two-week stopgap measure for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
DHS has been mired in controversy recently over its immigration enforcement tactics, especially in the wake of two fatal shootings by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. There have also been growing calls for the ouster of the department’s head, Secretary Kristi Noem.
The ongoing partial government shutdown is set to continue until at least Tuesday, with House Democrats not committing to providing the votes necessary to fast-track approval of a funding package for the government to reopen.
