Patriot,

We wanted to give you an update about what’s happening in Washington, D.C. in the last few days of the session before Congress scurries out of town for the rest of the year.

As we warned in September, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate under Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are pushing to pass a 1,500-page spending bill that lawmakers haven’t had any time to read. . .


What was supposed to be a “continuing resolution” has turned into an omnibus budget bill (the one Mike Johnson promised we wouldn’t get) to spend an additional hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars in just three months.

Not only does it continue the budget (at astronomical Covid-era levels) with no cuts, they also threw in $100 billion in disaster aid among other things.

Better Americans than Ukrainians, but $100 billion?

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who warned in September this would happen, noted, “The Swamp is using the threat of a Christmas shutdown to pressure congressmen into voting for a massive spending bill they won’t be able to read.”

The House has a rule a bill must be made public at least 72 hours before a vote.

But in typical fashion, that rule is being ignored, mostly because Johnson and Schumer again waited until the last minute so they could RAM a government funding bill through during the holidays when good patriots like you aren’t normally watching.

Those who have tried to read the bill have noticed some eye-popping provisions, including a one-year extension of the State Department’s “Global Engagement Center,” which funds organizations that censor conservative media, tens of billions in wasteful spending, and – what else – a pay raise for members of Congress.



That’s right. While many Americans are struggling to pay their bills and keep up with rampant inflation, Congress is going to give themselves a raise of $6,600 per year.


The silver lining in current events is the Senate has approved the House-passed version of the National Defense Authorization Act.

That means the provisions we’ve fought so hard to prevent – an expansion of the military draft and sending more American money off to Ukraine – are out!

It’s thanks to all of your petitions, phone calls, and support that we’ve been able to win this hard-fought battle.

And we’ve had to track the actions of Congress every step of the way.

And as we see with the budget, we must always be vigilant and watching, because Speaker Mike Johnson is always saying one thing and doing the opposite.

If you can, please consider chipping in a contribution to Campaign for Liberty, because we are still fighting these battles, right through the end of the year.

As they say, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it’s because we watch Congress so carefully that we’ve been able to mobilize patriots like you on the turn of a dime and gotten the results that we have.

Thanks for all of your support,

John McCardell
Executive Director



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