In advance of a potential limited government shutdown, House Republican politicians are pressing ahead with a$ 1.2 trillion spending package.
The 1, 000- plus- site bundle of bills includes funding for the State, Education, Defense, Labor, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services departments in governmental time 2024 as well as for “general government and international operations” and the Internal Revenue Service, The Hill reported.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., stated in a written statement early on Thursday that” this FY24 budget policy is a significant commitment to strengthening our national security by moving the Pentagon toward a emphasis on its main goal while expanding support for our brave men and women who serve in uniform.”
Yet, some of Johnson’s Democratic colleagues expressed robust opposition to the policy.
” Less than 24 hrs to examine – the# SwampOmnibus– 1000+ pages &,$ 1.2 Trillion – busts spending caps to finance the WHO, woke DOD, a armed FBI fresh headq, &, 100 % fails to prevent Progressive Democrats ‘ mass releases of criminals across our borders”, Rep. Chip Roy, R- Texas, wrote Thursday in a post on X.
” No Republican should vote for it”, Roy added.
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R- Mont., similarly expressed dissatisfaction with the spending package, which Congress must pass by midnight Friday to prevent a partial shutdown of the government.
” Well, the D. C. cartel is at it again. In a video he shared on X, Rosendale said,” They released a$ 1.2 trillion minibus at 2: 32 a.m. this morning, giving us somewhere in the neighborhood of 48 hours to review it before they’re going to bring it up for a vote.”
The Montana Republican said,” We’re going to be asked to suspend the rules and pass it because we’re- stuffed with additional pet projects and earmarks as we see these things repeatedly.”
He declared,” Again, I will fight the line against the spending that this apparatus has created over the past few decades.”
In a post on X Thursday afternoon, Rep. Andy Biggs, R- Ariz., used a derogatory term for Democrats and Republicans who act together against the public interest, writing:” The Uniparty’s$ 1.2 trillion minibus would use taxpayer dollars to fund benefits for illegal aliens, late- term abortions, and DEI initiatives across the nation”.
According to Biggs,” It insults hardworking Americans and the issues that matter to them.”
David Ditch, senior policy analyst in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation, posted a lengthy thread on X highlighting “gimmicks, earmarks, and a few wins” in the spending package. The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news and commentary platform.
” A way for Congress to get around spending caps is ‘ rescissions,’ or cuts to previously enacted spending. Every dollar’ cut’ makes room for more spending”, Ditch wrote. ” For instance, this’ rescission’ is an annual fake cut, the money would n’t have been spent”.
Further down the thread, Ditch cited two Senate Democrats from Rhode Island:
Senators]Jack ] Reed and]Sheldon ] Whitehouse get a$ 1.8 million earmark for Women &, Infants Hospital. If you do n’t know that they offer abortions, that sounds innocent.
Dollars are fungible, and federal funding keeps the abortion clinic open.
Heritage Action for America, the grassroots arm of The Heritage Foundation, issued a lengthy press release at 6 p. m. Thursday detailing what’s wrong with the spending bill and identifying it as a key “no” vote on the organization’s legislative scorecard.
The spending plan and legislative process are “indistinguishable from typical Swamp behavior that’s brought our economy and country to the brink of disaster,” according to Heritage Action President Kevin Roberts in the release.
Roberts, also president of The Heritage Foundation, said:
In the middle of the night, Congress released the text of a$ 1.2 trillion, earmark- filled
spending bill that bankrolls sanctuary cities, corrupt NGOs, and Biden’s open border
policies. Legislators are extorting the public through arbitrary deadlines and shutdown politics.
Americans compel lawmakers to vote for a bill they are n’t allowed to read. The
Nothing can hide the bill’s text, though it may have been dropped under the cover of darkness.
incredible misuse of taxpayer funds and continuation of Biden’s dangerous border
crisis.Conservatives were informed that the days of omnibus spending bills were kept secret.
were over. However, the bill it produced and this procedure are unrelated to the typical bill.
Swamp behavior has brought our economy and nation to the brink of disaster. If we
If we want to change Washington, we must start by disobeying and breaking this cycle.
indefensible bill.
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