By Lacey Christ | Fox News 4/8/2023
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ramps up Biden admin lawsuit over $1.6 trillion spending package
Paxton filed an injunction to prevent 'millions of dollars from going to illegal immigrants in Texas'Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden administration to block the $1.6 trillion spending package, which he says was passed unconstitutionally.
"If we're going to start just ignoring provisions of the Constitution, then we don't have a constitution," Paxton told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. "Under Nancy Pelosi, for the first time in our history, they ignored the quorum."
Paxton filed an injunction this week to prevent the Biden administration from implementing the budget act, saying that if it were blocked it would prevent millions in taxpayer dollars going to illegal immigrants in Texas.
When the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 was passed in December 2022, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., allowed 226 members of Congress to vote by proxy, under a rule created in 2020 that allows lawmakers to "designate another Member as a proxy."
Attorney General Ken Paxton
@KenPaxtonTX
BREAKING: We're suing the Biden Admin to block the unconstitutional $1.7 trillion omnibus package. Today, I filed for an injunction to stop its enactment and prevent millions of dollars from going to illegal immigrants in Texas.
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