‘A Total Dumpster Fire’: Conservatives Furious as GOP Leadership Strikes Deal on Massive Spending Bill

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‘A Total Dumpster Fire’: Conservatives Furious as GOP Leadership Strikes Deal on Massive Spending Bill
December 18, 2024

History appears to be repeating itself this week as Congress has brokered an agreement on a massive year-end catch-all spending bill — something it has often done in recent years just before leaving Washington for Christmas break.

The move has some conservatives fuming.

Politico reported, “Congressional leaders have struck a bipartisan deal to push the government funding deadline to March 14 and deliver more than $100 billion in emergency aid for disaster relief, House Republican leaders told their conference Tuesday morning.”

Without action, the federal government faces a shutdown Friday at midnight.

The legislation could be released as early as Tuesday. House Speaker Mike Johnson has not promised the 72-hour review period before voting on it, according to two people who attended a closed-door GOP conference meeting of lawmakers, Politico said.

Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that negotiations regarding the continuing resolution to fund the government are ongoing.

“Obviously we’re getting closer to the Dec. 20 deadline, so time is of the essence for Republicans to reach an agreement with us that we can act on quickly,” he said Tuesday morning, according to Politico.

Several conservatives have expressed frustration with the process.

“It’s a total dumpster fire. I think it’s garbage,” GOP Rep. Eric Burlison of Missouri, who is a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, said.

“Sadly, this is happening again. I think that it’s shameful that people that celebrate DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] coming in, and yet we’re going to vote for another billion dollars to be added to the deficit. It’s ironic,” added the lawmaker, who probably meant to say trillion dollars, given the legislation would fund the entire government until March 14.

Fellow Freedom Caucus member Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, added, “This week we’re supposed to vote on a continuing resolution which will keep spending money out the wazoo for another three months because we can’t do an annual budget. That’s Congress’s problem.”

“The problem that goes with it, of course, is that we have a structural deficit that keeps a mounting national debt going,” he added.

Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina posted on social media platform X, “We do this every year … the manufactured ‘government shutdown’ crisis so everyone can get everything into an omnibus or continuing resolution and taking us further into debt.”

Sean Davis, CEO of The Federalist, wrote, “Stop calling it a CR. It’s a massive K Street Christmas tree omnibus with giveaways to every special interest in Washington, D.C.”

The national debt is currently over $36 trillion, with interest payments to service it in fiscal year 2024 topping $1.1 trillion, which was more than the entire Defense Department budget of approximately $825 billion.

DOGE, headed up by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, has set a goal of cutting $2 trillion annually from federal spending.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Author: Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal

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