Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) once again proved her seemingly unlimited ignorance on Wednesday during the questioning of an official from the Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to HuffPost, Boebert chastised the SSA official and suggested that employees for the agency are lazy.
Boebert told Oren “Hank” McKnelly, an executive counselor for the SSA, that the agency was allowing “delinquent employees to sit on their sofas at home” instead of “actually getting to work and doing their jobs” as she took aim at telework policies during a House Oversight Committee hearing.
“This is absolutely unacceptable,” said Boebert, known for her bizarre behavior in and outside Washington, D.C.
McNeely told the congresswoman that all employees who work from home are monitored.
That led Boebert to ask, “Then why is the backlogs for Social Security applicants increased from 41,000 to 107,000?”
McNeely replied, “Because we’ve been historically underfunded for a number of years now.”
The congresswoman tried to be snarky, telling the official:
“I don’t think you’re underfunded. You’re funded at the Nancy Pelosi levels, at the democrat levels. We just continued that same funding.”
McNeely dropped the hammer on Boebert by using simple facts to refute what she’d just said.
“So I’d say we’d have an increase of over 8 million beneficiaries over the last 10 years. At the same time, we experienced our lowest work staffing levels at the end of FY 22. That’s a math problem. I mean, that is a problem. If you have those workloads increasing and you don’t have the staff to take care of those workloads, you’re going to have the backlogs that you’re talking about, representative.”
The video, which has more than 2.4 million views in less than 24 hours, also drew plenty of comments from other social media users.