Patriot,
The budget battle is still raging in Congress, and your calls have been tremendously effective.
The 1,500-page, pork-laden bill House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) tried to ram through the chamber is dead.
Now, Democrats are threatening to shut down the government – basically no matter what else Republicans pass.
Well, bring it on. Democrats will own the shutdown – which starts AT MIDNIGHT.
Yesterday, the Republicans tried a “compromise” – a much shorter bill, a “clean” continuation (of the Pelosi-era, Covid-era budget) with no cuts and a two-year suspension of the debt ceiling.
38 Republicans voted NO, pointing out they had just last year vacated former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for having done the same thing.
President Trump attacked the Republicans who voted against this wasteful spending bill, but it would have failed anyway, without their support, because almost every Democrat voted against it and it needed a 2/3 vote to pass under suspension of the rules, as it must.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), one of the 38 who voted NO on the so-called “clean” continuation, proposed dividing the issues into their own bills:
-one vote on the “clean” continued spending
-one vote on the debt limiting
-one vote on disaster relief
-one vote on farm bailouts
-one vote on the debt limiting
-one vote on disaster relief
-one vote on farm bailouts
On X, Elon Musk voiced his support for the idea.
And Vivek Ramaswamy pointed out the new “clean” continued spending bill, hailed as being “short” at only 116 pages, could be much shorter – just change the date the last one expires to March 14, 2025 and call it a day.
Please make another quick call to your U.S. representative at (202) 224-3121 and
tell them to pass a completely clean continuing resolution without all of the garbage and billions more in spending.
Make them vote on it, and if Democrats vote NO to cause a shutdown, it’s on them.
They could even pass it under regular order, which would take additional days to get through Congress but only require a majority to pass.
There is no reason to compromise now and concede to massive spending increases when our country is already on the brink of a debt crisis.
Tell them to hold the line. Call your representative at (202) 224-3121.
Enough is enough. STOP SPENDING MORE MONEY!
For Liberty,
John McCardell
Executive Director
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