Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee and top Democrat Martin Heinrich are clashing again — this time on social media over Jeffrey Epstein and late activist César Chávez.
The latest spat started when Lee (R-Utah) accused Democrats of enshrining a crime scene by opposing Republican legislation Tuesday that would strip funding from the national monument in California honoring Chávez.
A New York Times story last month detailed allegations that the late labor leader sexually assaulted women and girls, including Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with him.
Lee wrote on X that “The César Chávez National Monument is the very place where Chávez sexually abused women and children. Senate Democrats just fought to keep this crime scene enshrined as a national monument. On the same day that two congressmen resigned because of sexual abuse allegations.”
