Freedom Caucus slams spending bill designed to avert shutdown: ‘This is what surrender looks like’

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Freedom Caucus slams spending bill designed to avert shutdown: ‘This is what surrender looks like’
By
Julia Johnson
January 15, 2024 8:30 am

The hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus has already come out against a new short-term spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown, saying the continuing resolution is prolonging “Pelosi levels” of spending.

With the first appropriations bill deadline set for Jan. 19 as per the laddered continuing resolution passed last year, Congress is left with just days either to pass each appropriations measure or extend the deadlines with another continuing resolution.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced a new continuing resolution Sunday night to push the laddered measure’s deadlines for appropriations bills to March 1 and March 8.

“The @HouseGOP is planning to pass a short-term spending bill continuing Pelosi levels with Biden policies, to buy time to pass longer-term spending bills at Pelosi levels with Biden policies,” the Freedom Caucus wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday night. “This is what surrender looks like.”

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[Maj. Bill Martin]

The House could just pass the individual appropriations bills right now...except that just like during all of 2023, the GOP internally cannot agree on those bills.  Changing Speakers didn't change that reality.

The even sadder fact is that we're still doing this Kabuki theater of insisting on individual spending bills for FY 2024, when the House should be working on bills for FY 2025.  It's like we're in a hole and can't stop digging.