Another MAGA representative has joined former Rep. Matt Gaetz and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in calling for the release of the “congressional sexual slush fund list” of lawmakers who have used taxpayer dollars to settle sexual harassment claims.
“Congress has secretly paid out more than $17 million of your money to quietly settle charges of harassment (sexual and other forms) in congressional offices. Do you think we should release the names of the representatives? I do,” Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie wrote in a post on social media platform X.
That $17 million figure, which covers a 20-year period, is misleading. It also includes cases involving allegations of discrimination, retaliation and labor law violations, plus contract and pay disputes—and it doesn’t only apply to members of Congress, according to factcheck.org.
But Greene (R-GA) was quick to co-sign Massie’s message to release the “congressional sexual slush fund list.”
“Taxpayers should have never had to pay for that,” she wrote in a post on X.
Greene has been particularly keen to out her colleagues since the House Ethics Committee began debating whether to release its findings that her friend Gaetz (R-FL) had used illegal drugs and paid underage women for sex. Gaetz has denied the claims, calling them part of a “smear campaign,” but resigned from the House of Representatives in a bid to keep the damning report quiet.
“All the ethics reports and claims, including the one I filed,” should be made public, Greene said in November. “All your sexual harassment and assault claims that were secretly settled paying off victims with tax payer money. The entire Jeffrey Epstein files, tapes, recordings, witness interviews.”
Last week, Gaetz also fantasized about returning to Congress for a day to “file a privileged motion to expose every ‘me too’ settlement paid using public funds (even of former members)” before resigning again.
The $17 million worth of settlements were paid out by the OCRW, formerly the Office of Compliance, which covers the Capitol police, Congressional Budget Office and other legislative departments.
Some lawmakers have also used their office accounts to pay out sexual-harassment claims, making it difficult to know how much taxpayer money has been spent on the settlements. But if MAGA wants to unleash this particular Kraken, who are we to stand in the way?
