Mara Macie joined Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM to discuss her congressional seat challenge against Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL).
Mara Macie joined Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM to discuss her congressional seat challenge against Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL) just days after a Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts in District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s business records trial against the former president.
Macie and host Matthew Boyle discussed Rutherford’s boilerplate statement after Trump’s verdict and called the congressman out for talking tough while refusing to take any action.
“Congressman Rutherford is on the Appropriations Committee, meaning that he has the power and the authority to actually do something about this because he controls or has a hand on the wheel at least, how our federal tax dollars are spent,” Boyle said. “And he hasn’t done anything about it. Nothing at all.”
Prosecutors’ offices receive federal dollars to operate. Despite holding a majority in the House, a minority of House Republicans like Rutherford partnered with Democrats in March to pass a massive $1.2 trillion government funding plan. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) refused to defund special counsel Jack Smith’s federal prosecution of Trump and fully funded Biden’s Department of Justice.
Macie also referenced Rutherford’s vote for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including his vote against requiring government investigators to obtain warrants before spying on Americans. That amendment vote failed in a 218 to 218 tie.
“That was one vote from failing and if I had been elected to office [in 2022] that would not have gone through. I mean, we really need to take a look at this, who is going to represent the constituents and the American people.”
Macie said the eruption of support of Trump should be harnessed to take back the Congress as well.
“If we had that same energy behind us, we would be able to take back the whole Congress, and we would be able to make sure these things do happen,” she said.
She dove further into Rutherford’s voting record, particularly on massive spending bills.
“John Rutherford consistently votes the wrong way,” she said. “He votes for the continuing resolutions which fund DEI and trans surgeries and travel for abortion for DOD and things like that.
