{"id":2659,"date":"2026-07-01T22:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:45:53","slug":"tone-deaf-maga-congressman-makes-wild-lobster-brag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2659","title":{"rendered":"Tone-Deaf MAGA Congressman Makes Wild \u2018Lobster\u2019 Brag"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>MAGA Rep. Troy Nehls brushed off a question about \u201caffordability\u201d by bragging about his expensive July 4 feast.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2657\">Pope Undercuts Trump\u2019s July 4 Bash With Veiled Message<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do House Republicans make the case that you\u2019re fighting for affordability when you go back to your districts?\u201dreporter Pablo Manr\u00edquez of Migrant Insider asked Nehls on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAffordability? What\u2019re you talking about?\u201d the 58-year-old Texas congressman replied. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m gonna go there tomorrow, well over the Fourth. I\u2019m gonna get me a couple of big lobster tails, I\u2019m gonna get me some nice ribeyes. I\u2019m gonna sit in my backyard with my family, my neighbors, and we\u2019re going to be enjoying the Fourth, celebrating 250 years,\u201d he boasted.<\/p>\n<p>Manr\u00edquez then pressed Nehls further, asking, \u201cYou think 60 percent of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck can afford lobster tails and ribeyes and all that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe not,\u201d Nehls said. \u201cMaybe the 60 percent of Americans don\u2019t work as hard as I do either. I mean, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nehls, who earns $174,000 per year as a House member, will not return to Washington for work until July 13, as they break for the July 4th holiday. Congress is also off for nearly the entire month of August for its annual summer recess. The House is also out of session for nearly the entire month of October.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2655\">Melania Goon Uses Foster Kids Project to Plug Her \u2018#1\u2019 Movie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nehls, who was sworn in to Congress in 2021, is not seeking re-election in the 2026 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Since arriving on Capitol Hill, he quickly emerged as one of President Donald Trump\u2019s most unwavering supporters. <\/p>\n<p>He has echoed the president\u2019s false narrative that the 2020 election was rigged, and has advocated for renaming Washington, D.C.\u2019s Dulles International Airport after Trump. In 2023, he even said he would support naming Trump Speaker of the House, at a time when the House GOP was in a speaker stalemate due to party infighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is the best thing to happen in this country in a hundred years. He was born a very special baby. I bet you the doctors said, \u2018I can tell this is a very special baby,\u2019\u201d he proclaimed earlier this month, and was promptly mocked for it.<\/p>\n<p>In April, just one week after Easter, Nehls likened Trump to Jesus Christ, declaring that the current president was \u201calmost the second coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2653\">Vulnerable GOP Senator Rocked by Lavish Travel Revelations<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAGA Rep. Troy Nehls brushed off a question about \u201caffordability\u201d by bragging about his expensive July 4 feast. Read more Pope Undercuts Trump\u2019s July 4 Bash With Veiled Message \u201cHow do House Republicans make the case that you\u2019re fighting for affordability when you go back to your districts?\u201dreporter Pablo Manr\u00edquez of Migrant Insider asked Nehls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tone-Deaf MAGA Congressman Makes Wild \u2018Lobster\u2019 Brag - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=2659\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tone-Deaf MAGA Congressman Makes Wild \u2018Lobster\u2019 Brag - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MAGA Rep. 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