New records have confirmed that liberal “Squad” member Ayanna Pressley spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on private security despite strongly advocating to defund the police.
Last year, other radical “Squad” reps. were also forced to answer for their choices to spend thousands of dollars of campaign funds on private security services despite calling to defund police precincts across the country.
The Daily Wire reports:
According to the new Statement of Disbursements of the House records, Pressley spent $63,000 of her Member Representational Allowance (MRA) on “security service” in 2021 — spending $28,000 between Oct. 1, 2021 and Dec. 31, 2021 and $35,000 between May 2021 and August 2021.
The payments show the money was directed to Alisa Tatarian, who is a Financial Administrator at the U.S. House of Representatives. It is not clear how that money was finally spent. The Daily Caller contacted Tatarian as well as Pressley’s office several times about the money that was spent on “security service,” to which they did not respond.
According to the House of Representatives website, the MRA is “intended for individual member offices’ expenditures and receipts during a single legislative year” and “funded through fiscal year appropriations and authorized annually by the Committee on House Administration.”
In June 2020 — the height of the racial activism that followed the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor — Pressley told TIME that she supports efforts to defund the police. “This is simply about a refund. This is about true reparations. This is about investment in communities,” Pressley argued. “There’s a reason why the Congressional Black Caucus submits an alternative budget every year. Because we know that our communities have been historically under resourced, underinvested in and divested [from].”
Will the radical “Squad” finally be forced to pay for their hypocrisy? As the country gets close to November’s midterm elections more and more Democrats have begun to turn on their progressive colleagues over their radical agenda and inability to connect with more moderate voters.
