Drawing a line in the sand, one fiscally conservative House Republican plans to make GOP senators pay for approving a $1.7 trillion left-wing spending package of waste and abuse by blocking anything and everything they propose.
The massive spending bill, packed with left-wing policy goals, passed with the support of 18 Senate Republicans.
Texas Congressman Chip Roy and 30 House Republicans announced they “would do everything in their power to ‘thwart even the smallest legislative and policy efforts' of senators who vote for this week's $1.7 trillion omnibus bill.”
“(B)ecause almost every Senate Republican has bloviated about inflation and the national debt at some point in the past two years, a vote for this bill should be viewed as a blatant display of hypocrisy,” reads a letter from Roy and the members.
“(W)e will oppose and whip opposition to any legislative priority of those senators who vote for its passage – including the Republican leader. We will oppose any rule, any consent request, suspension voice vote, or roll call vote of any such Senate bill, and will otherwise do everything in our power to thwart even the smallest legislative and policy efforts of those senators,” they warn.
As expected, the bill increases funding for President Biden's bureaucrats and wholly fails to impose meaningful checks on his radical agenda. It increases funding for an FBI that is colluding with big tech to suppress free speech, labeling parents as domestic terrorists, and targeting pro-life Americans,” the conservatives write.
“It gives more money to the NIH, CDC, FDA, and other agencies that are actively conspiring with big healthcare to our detriment. It increases funding for a State Department that failed in its basic function to get Americans out of Afghanistan while funding things like drag shows in foreign countries,” they continue.
“It further empowers EPA and other agencies to wage war on reliable US energy. And it provides another $45 billion for Ukraine while failing to hold the Pentagon brass accountable for promoting the woke ideology that is gutting the culture of our Armed Forces,” they add.
“We must stop the assault on Texans and the American people,” the letter concludes, “(T)here is no point in pretending we are a united party, and we must prepare for a new political reality.”
Here is a full list of Republican senators who voted in favor of the bill:
Roy Blunt (Missouri)
John Boozman (Arkansas)
Shelley Capito (West Virginia)
Susan Collins (Maine)
John Cornyn (Texas)
Tom Cotton (Arkansas)
Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)
Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma)
Mitch McConnell (Kentucky)
Jerry Moran (Kansas)
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Rob Portman (Ohio)
Mitt Romney (Utah)
Mike Rounds (South Dakota)
Richard Shelby (Alabama)
John Thune (South Dakota)
Roger Wicker (Mississippi)
Todd Young (Indiana)
The 31 House Republicans and Members-Elect who signed the letter are:
Andrew S. Clyde
Andy Biggs
Andy Ogles
Anna Paulina Luna
Barry Moore
Bill Posey
Bob Good
Byron Donalds
Chip Roy
Claudia Tenney
Clay Higgins
Dan Bishop
Diana Harshbarger
Eli Crane
Eric Burlison
Jody Hice
Keith Self
Lauren Boebert
Louie Gohmert
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Mary E. Miller
Matthew Rosendale, Sr.
Mayra Flores
Ralph Norman
Randy K. Weber
Ronny L. Jackson
Russ Fulcher
Scott Perry
W. Gregory Steube
Yvette Herrell
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
Once again talking big about closing the barn door after the horses are free. Great job pubs! IMO
Purge DC of all RINOs day 1
Sounds good but most of anything GOP sounds good until the voting starts. This too.
ALL 18 of these “Democrats in sheep’s clothing” should be EXPELLED from Congress for betraying their voters and their Party by throwing in with the conniving, power-mad Demmunists on this HORROR of a “funding” bill they just helped the Demmunists cram down our unwilling throats!
All should be punished, I realize many were quitting and just left leaving their final RINO mark, but those that are still there should never ever see anything they propose ever make it out of committee. TRAITORS and Benedict Arnolds, Et tu Brute……….time to b———- slap them constantly for the next two years!
How in the world could you sign a 4,155 page contract on the day you voted for it, but only receiving the 4,155 page contract at 4am the same day your voting for what is in it. You all need to be lined up
Republicans are the slow train to socialism.
Well said. I agree!
Portman is gone, he retired at the end of this session.
We need term limits NOW !
What we need is Trump back in the WH.
About time that the Republicans start to clean up their “in name only” Democrat operatives. There are times when compromises do only one thing, and that is undermining INTEGRITY.
You’ll have to excuse me, I’ve got all trust in them.