Washington's excessive spending is an existential threat to our country. The interest on our national debt is now the largest single item in the federal budget and threatens our children's financial future. It is also driving record inflation, which is hurting Americans at the gas pump and in the grocery store and putting the American Dream of home ownership out of reach by driving up interest rates.
Just two weeks ago, the House and Senate passed the first of two massive "minibus" spending bills to fund the government through the 2024 fiscal year which ends on September 30. The first minibus maintained the Biden-Pelosi-Schumer policies that are destroying our country and contained nearly 7,000 earmarks which added $12.7 billion to the bill. I do not request or accept earmarks, which are for pork projects used to buy votes for bad bills.
The second "minibus" was a 1,012-page bill, released in the dead of night and scheduled for a vote just 32 hours later. It passed on Friday with 90 percent of Democrats voting for it, under what's known as a "suspension of the rules", while Republicans voted 112-101 against it. The bill violated the House rule that is supposed to give us three days – a full 72 hours – to read it, violated the Republican Conference rule requiring "majority of the majority" support, and it also continues funding the agencies, programs, and policies that Republicans regularly campaign against. The price tag is $60 billion more than when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker, and it funds abortion, transgender surgeries, so-called "gender affirming care" centers for children, DEI, CRT, radical climate policies, and $200 billion for a new FBI headquarters in Maryland.
The bill also contained $3 billion in additional funding for the Department of Homeland Security to continue facilitating Biden's border invasion. As Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, I joined my friend Rep. Chip Roy from Texas and over 40 of my Republicans colleagues in a letter that called on all House Republicans to vote against this spending bill unless it closes Biden's open border. The Speaker should have attached our H.R. 2 border security bill and sent it to the Senate, forcing Democrats to choose between shutting down the border, or shutting down the government.
We cannot continue to borrow and spend money we don't have to fund the very policies that are targeting Americans and destroying our country.
Just two weeks ago, the House and Senate passed the first of two massive "minibus" spending bills to fund the government through the 2024 fiscal year which ends on September 30. The first minibus maintained the Biden-Pelosi-Schumer policies that are destroying our country and contained nearly 7,000 earmarks which added $12.7 billion to the bill. I do not request or accept earmarks, which are for pork projects used to buy votes for bad bills.
The second "minibus" was a 1,012-page bill, released in the dead of night and scheduled for a vote just 32 hours later. It passed on Friday with 90 percent of Democrats voting for it, under what's known as a "suspension of the rules", while Republicans voted 112-101 against it. The bill violated the House rule that is supposed to give us three days – a full 72 hours – to read it, violated the Republican Conference rule requiring "majority of the majority" support, and it also continues funding the agencies, programs, and policies that Republicans regularly campaign against. The price tag is $60 billion more than when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker, and it funds abortion, transgender surgeries, so-called "gender affirming care" centers for children, DEI, CRT, radical climate policies, and $200 billion for a new FBI headquarters in Maryland.
The bill also contained $3 billion in additional funding for the Department of Homeland Security to continue facilitating Biden's border invasion. As Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, I joined my friend Rep. Chip Roy from Texas and over 40 of my Republicans colleagues in a letter that called on all House Republicans to vote against this spending bill unless it closes Biden's open border. The Speaker should have attached our H.R. 2 border security bill and sent it to the Senate, forcing Democrats to choose between shutting down the border, or shutting down the government.
We cannot continue to borrow and spend money we don't have to fund the very policies that are targeting Americans and destroying our country.
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