A budget deal agreed upon by congressional leaders is being attacked by conservatives as too much waste being approved in too little time.
This from thegatewaypundit.com.
According to CBS:
On Tuesday, a deal was cut to pass what is known as a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through March 14.
In theory, Congress is supposed to pass a federal budget by Oct. 1, but in practice, it uses a series of stopgap bills to operate the government while Congress hashes out a final budget. The current stopgap bill expires Friday.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was among those saying the agreement is a disaster for fiscal restraint.
Paul posted on X:
I had hoped to see @SpeakerJohnson grow a spine, but this bill full of pork shows he is a weak, weak man.
I had hoped to see @SpeakerJohnson grow a spine, but this bill full of pork shows he is a weak, weak man.
The debt will continue to grow. Ultimately the dollar will fail. Democrats are clueless and Big Gov Republicans are complicit.
A sad day for America.
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 18, 2024
Further:
The debt will continue to grow. Ultimately the dollar will fail. Democrats are clueless and Big Gov Republicans are complicit. A sad day for America.
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah noted that many who support President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency:
[F]ailed to translate that public support
into action when they should have done so.
He posted on X:
Many of the loudest, self-poclaimed ‘@DOGE Heroes’ in Congress will vote for the CR—even though it flies in the face of everything @DOGE is trying to fix & perpetuates the very problems Republicans railed against while campaigning this year.
Many of the loudest, self-proclaimed “@DOGE Heroes” in Congress will vote for the CR—even though it flies in the face of everything @DOGE is trying to fix & perpetuates the very problems Republicans railed against while campaigning this year
Then they’ll say “@DOGE will fix it!” https://t.co/JRWDvsbRd8
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) December 18, 2024
Further:
Then they’ll say ‘@DOGE will fix it!’
Lee’s post contained a comment from Daniel Horowitz of The Blaze mocking critics of big spending who just spent even bigger.
Horotiz mocked big spenders as saying:
’We’re going to cut spending like there is no tomorrow, DOGE DOGE DOGE everything DOGE.’
He wrote in a post on X:
Then at the very first leverage point following the big election win, they actually INCREASE spending from the record inflationary baseline.
According to The Hill:
Paul said he might not be on board with the timetable to zip through procedural steps and pass the budget by Friday.
Targeting subsidies for green energy companies, Paul said:
I can’t anticipate giving any time of consent to condense time without debate and debate means amendments.
Referring to the North Carolina region hit hard by storms this fall, Paul said:
I think they should be forced to decide: Do you want to help the people in Asheville or do you want to help green-energy companies, multimillion-dollar companies with subsidies for green energy? There’s about $4 billion out there in that.
CBS reported:
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he wants the bill to go through the regular process, which would mean a pit stop at the Rules Committee, where critics could slow the bill’s progress.
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas said the bill’s fast track “is not the process that we signed up for.”
Roy explained:
We get this negotiated crap, and we’re forced to eat this crap sandwich. Why?
Because freaking Christmas is right around the corner. It’s the same dang thing every year—
legislate by crisis, legislate by calendar, not legislate because it’s the right thing to do.
Final thought: Shut the damn government down.
