I know you’ve heard this before, but I’m saying it again: I voted NO on yet another bloated emergency spending bill, and I’m not sorry about it. This nonsense has been going on for over 30 dadgum years. Congress is supposed to pass a real budget—not throw together some last-minute continuing resolution to keep the government running without solving the real issues.

Let me break it down for the folks who aren’t neck-deep in the D.C. sewer. By law, we’re supposed to pass a budget by September 30 every year. But instead of getting to work and doing the job we were elected to do, Washington throws a soggy band-aid on the problem and calls it a win. Let’s be real—it's nothing but a pathetic excuse to avoid responsibility. I see right through it, and I know you do too.

Some might shrug and say, “That’s just how things are done,” but I call bull. In Tennessee, we pass single-issue spending bills—we handle one issue at a time, no shortcuts. Congress could learn a lot from that kind of accountability. It’s been over three decades since Washington passed a real budget, and that’s not just lazy—it’s a betrayal of the oath we took to serve this country. We were elected to solve problems, not hide behind cheap fixes.

This latest bill is more of the same. They packed it full of woke spending and handed an extra $231 million to the Secret Service—the same agency that failed to prevent two assassination attempts on Donald Trump. Why are we rewarding incompetence?

Then they tacked on the SAVE Act, something I support, but they attached it to a bill so bloated with waste that it had no chance. It’s like they want these things to fail so they can go home, pat themselves on the back, and say, “Well, we tried.” I don’t buy it.

We need real accountability in Washington. We can’t keep passing stopgap measures that do nothing but push the problem down the road. And let’s be real: this bill is nothing more than a quick fix to avoid a government shutdown before the election. That’s not leadership—it’s cowardice.

It’s time for Congress to get its act together, stop wasting your hard-earned tax dollars, and start doing what we were sent here to do—pass a real budget and tackle issues head-on. I won’t stop calling this out, and I won’t back down.