(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In response to the Biden administration’s radically leftist lust for a $30 million scheme that includes distributing free crack pipes, Republican Reps. Dan Bishop of North Carolina and Lauren Boebert of Colorado have introduced the aptly-named HUNTER Act.
The “Halting the Use of Narcotics Through Effective Recovery Act” is monikered for President Joe Biden‘s son, Hunter Biden, who has openly struggled with drug addiction, reported Fox News.
The legislation would ban federal taxpayer dollars from funding crack pipes, needles and other drug paraphernalia, after the Biden administration got caught “red handed,” the lawmakers said, trying to fund a give-away spree for crack addicts.
“The HUNTER Act is a means of encapsulating how ridiculous public policy can become when it’s in the hands of the woke,” Bishop said.
“Congressman Bishop and I are standing up and saying, heck no,” Boebert said. “Our tax dollars should not be funding the death and destruction of crack addicts.
“Democrats are always putting the American taxpayer last and Republicans just want to give people in need a good job,” she said. “Democrats want to give them crack pipes.”
As far as the legislation’s appropriate acronym, Boebert said she liked it better than another alternative.
“I like the HUNTER Act, because it was a better acronym than Stop Paying to Subsidize Biden’s Son’s Drug Addiction act,” Boebert said.
“That didn’t really flow,” she said. “I think tax dollars have been on the hook for Hunter’s addictions long enough.”
On the dueling acronym crack-pipe front, two other legislative contenders are the PIPES Act and the CRACK Act.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., joined Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in introducing the Preventing Illicit Paraphernalia for Exchange Systems Act to ban federal funding from being used to purchase illicit paraphernalia, such as pipes or needles, reported the Daily Mail.
Rubio, along with 16 Republican co-sponsors, also introduced the CRACK Act, which would prohibit the use of federal funds to “supply, or distribute pipes, cylindrical objects, or other paraphernalia that can be used to smoke, inhale, or ingest narcotics.”
“I am glad the Biden administration acknowledges sending crack pipes to our nation’s addicts is a bad idea,” Rubio said.
“It is pure insanity to think the federal government would fund crack pipe distribution,” Rubio said.
“This legislation will make certain the program can never pay for crack pipes, and given the Biden administration’s position I look forward to their vigorous support.
