Patriot,

Once again, Congress has passed an out-of-control budget, full of
outrageous spending measures as our country hurtles toward a
fiscal cliff.

The so-called "minibus" was supported mostly by Democrats,
although over 100 Republicans also supported it, and of course
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was essential to get the bill
passed. See how your congressman voted here.
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As I discuss in my newest column - read it below - this budget
exemplifies everything we've come to see from Speaker Mike
Johnson. He broke his promise to allow members 72 hours to read a
bill before voting on it. He included funding for child "gender
transitioning" without parental consent. And of course, it
included foreign aid. So much for "America First."

Read the full column below, and if you support Campaign for
Liberty's efforts to rein in out-of-control spending, please
support Campaign for Liberty with a contribution.
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For Liberty,

Ron Paul
Chairman


Congressional Omnibus is Like a Bad Hollywood Movie Sequel

This weekend's late-night spending vote in Congress seems like
another in an endless series of sequels to a bad suspense movie.
Just at the brink of "disaster," just before the stroke of
midnight, Congress pulls off a miracle and passes an omnibus bill
to save us from a "government shutdown!"

The heroes have saved the day!

Unfortunately, this latest sequel is as bad as the previous ones,
as the American people are left with a massive $1.2 trillion
dollar spending package to add to our already $34 trillion in
debt.

Military spending will, of course, be increased yet again, as the
military-industrial complex demands more of our wealth to feed
its ever-increasing appetite. And if this military spending
increase is not enough, Congressional leadership is promising
another huge supplemental bill to further fuel proxy wars in
Ukraine and Gaza - with some money to provoke China as well.

Republicans like to talk a good game about reining in spending -
especially during election season - but as we learned with this
"compromise" and all previous "compromises, it's all talk. At the
end of all the dramatic warnings about shutting the government
down, we are left with a Washington-style compromise, meaning the
leadership of both parties gets to throw anything and everything
they want into the massive bill.

Because it is only presented to the rank and file at the last
moment before "disaster," none of the Members get a chance to
even read it, much less shape it through amendments and debate.

The Republican House leadership promised the Members 72 hours to
read any new bill before a vote, but they broke their promise
without hesitation. Members would not have the chance to read the
more than 1,000 page bill, which was worked out in secret behind
closed doors

There is likely a reason that Congressional leaders did not want
Members to get the chance to read the bill.

As Rep. Thomas Massie discovered, buried in the bill is funding
for 13 year old children to get help with gender transitioning
without consent from their parents.

He also pointed out that although nowhere was it in the
authorization bill, just hours after the omnibus passes the
Department of Justice announces the creation of a Federal "Red
Flag" center to attack our Second Amendment rights.

Who knows how many more items like these - and far worse - are
deeply buried in the "must-pass" spending bill. Keeping these
items from the American people by secretly embedding them in
"must pass" legislation increasingly looks like a feature, not a
bug. No wonder Congress enjoys such a low approval rate among the
American people.

In the end, the bill only passed the Republican-controlled House
with the support of Democrats, fueling a growing rebellion
against Speaker Johnson among House conservatives.

The media-celebrated "bipartisanship" is not all it's cracked up
to be. It means that both parties embrace policies that are
leading to our financial bankruptcy. This further threatens the
dollar as the world's reserve currency and will result in
catastrophic changes worldwide that nearly no one in Congress
seems capable of imagining.

Republicans capitulating to Democrat demands to "save us" from a
government shutdown may temporarily keep the appearance that
"this is fine," but in the end they are making the coming crash
all the worse.
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