by Frank Holmes, reporter
For decades, Republicans have highlighted left-wing hypocrisy by calling Democratic elitists “limousine liberals.” It turns out, that label is literally true.
Democrats are living it up in stretch limos, riding in style while forcing you to foot the bill. And the biggest offender is a self-appointed defender of the poor and forgotten.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif, has spent more taxpayer money on limousines than any other member of Congress over six years, according to an investigation from The Center Square.
Waters is addicted to luxury, and spent $111,000 of your money on limousines since 2019, congressional receipts show.
The next-closest runner-up is former Democratic Congressman Ed Perlmutter of Colorado, who spent less than $20,000 on limos before his retirement in 2023.
Waters spends that much almost every year, records show. Waters’ office spent $25,950 on a limo service from July 1, 2024, to last June 30, a review of the Statement of Disbursements of the House has uncovered.
“A spokesperson” for Waters “did not immediately return requests for comment,” according to The Center Square.
Neither did any of the other Democrats who charged their limo cruises to you—and they’re nearly all Democrats, who spent nearly $30,000 of taxpayer funds on limousines.
Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., spent $1,950 on two rides, just two days apart. That accounts for most of the $3,963 of luxury limo reimbursements not charged by Waters.
Rep. Tim Kennedy, D-N.Y., spent $1,068 to rent a limousine twice, on August 22 and September 6, 2025.
Rep. Kevin Mullin, D-Calif., shelled out $209 to Premiere Limousine, so he could ride in style.
Some of the people in the report already had reputations for financial dishonesty.
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., asked taxpayers to reimburse her for spending $294 for Echo Limousine, based in Chicago.
As The Horn told you, last month Cherfilus-McCormick skipped a judicial hearing for defrauding taxpayers out of nearly $5 million.
The congresswoman agreed to give Floridians COVID shots in exchange for a grant of $5,778,316.45…but the feds say she siphoned off most of it for her political campaign.
The money comes through a program called the Members’ Representational Allowance, which pays members for travel and housing costs they incur for having to maintain a house in their district and another near Washington, D.C.
Funny, we thought lobbyists paid for Congress members’ houses.
All told, members of Congress have shaken down taxpayers for about $2 million a year through the Members’ Representational Allowance.
The receipts congressmen turn in for reimbursement is “an unpoliced area,” said Daniel Schuman of the American Governance Institute. “Members can largely do what they want.”
Take Maxine Waters’ mysterious limo company, Limousine House LLC. for example.
Almost no information is publicly available about the shadowy company. Strangely enough, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission (WMATC) moved to revoke the firm’s license, because it didn’t keep up on mandatory filings and paying government fees. WMATC listed the company as inactive in September 2024.
Even the company Maxine Waters uses is shady…and she is much like the company she keeps.
The Horn has told you for years that Waters shakes down Democratic candidates for “mailing costs” associated with listing their names on an endorsement mailer she sends to constituents…and she uses federal funds to make her family filthy, stinking rich.
Her daughter, Karen Waters, made nearly $200,000 in the 2022 election cycle alone.
That’s down from $291,000 in 2018 and $250,000 in 2020.
Waters poses as a defender of the poor and working classes, then demands they work overtime to pay for her limo rides.
She’s not alone. Almost every significant member of the far-Left has the same problem.
Take Squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who blew $30,000 on limousine rides in the fiscal year between October 2024 and September 2025. Records from the Federal Election Commission show Tlaib’s campaign made numerous payments to a business called Aline Luxury Limo Services.
The business brags that it offers customers “an upscale experience”and has provided “luxury transportation for over a decade.”
Tlaib campaign’s expenditures, which range from $118.80 to $1,326 apiece, came at the same time that Tlaib called President Donald Trump’s signature legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, “an act of violence against our communities (a)t a time of extreme income and wealth inequality…to serve the rich and powerful.”
The rich and powerful—the kind who ride down the street in limousines, barking orders at their chauffeirs?
Then there’s Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who drives in her own private Tesla.
The taxpayer-funded reimbursement plan’s use of limos is not purely partisan.
One Republican, Rep. Scott Franklin of Florida, gave $442 to the Fleur De Lis Limousine LLC—but his spokeswoman explained, “It wasn’t a limo. It was a Honda Odyssey van.” The Republican rented it after he arrived at two in the morning, and he couldn’t get an Uber from Tampa to his home.
“It definitely cost a lot, but it was a one-off thing,” said his chief of staff, Melissa Kelly.
Another Republican, Nancy Mace has come under investigation by the House Ethics Committee after she received $9,500 more in housing reimbursements than allowed by law, according to a report from the Office of Congressional Conduct released last December 2.
The House Ethics Committee “will review the matter pursuant to Committee Rule 18(a),” it announced Monday.
Mace is currently running for governor of South Carolina.
But Waters’ seniority puts her in line to play a major leadership role if Democrats win the midterms this November.
Tlaib screams down President Donald Trump during his State of the Union while pretending to represent the little people.
And AOC may be running for president of the United States, even after her humiliating brainfart about Taiwan at the Munich Security Conference.
If they win, who do you think will pay the bill for Democrats to live an even more opulent lifestyle?