House Speaker Johnson on Using Appropriations Process to Stem Border Crisis: ‘We Are Willing to Die

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House Speaker Johnson on Using Appropriations Process to Stem Border Crisis: ‘We Are Willing to Die on That Hill’

Jeff Poor 10 Jan 2024

During an appearance on FBN’s “Evening Edit,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) expressed his willingness to shut down the federal government to force action from the Biden administration on the southern border.

Johnson said his caucus was “willing to die on that hill.”

“Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says they are getting everything they want in non-Defense spending, that it doesn’t cut spending and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says it does nothing to stop the border crisis, stop the invasion, stop the weaponized government targeting Biden’s political enemies and innocent Americans,” host Elizabeth MacDonald said. “What do you make of those criticisms?”

“Well, listen, Chuck Schumer is going to spin it as best he can, but this is not what they wanted to do,” Johnson replied. “In fact, this amounts to a $30 billion cut to what the Senate had written, what they wanted to spend in the appropriations process. So this is significant. By the way, we clawed back unspent COVID funds, that $6.1 billion part of this, $10 billion more from that IRS fund that they had set aside. So that’s $20 billion out of that, in total. This is significant savings for the people. Again, not everything we wanted.”

“Now, Marjorie is not wrong,” he continued. “The border is on fire. You know, Liz, I took 64 members down on a trip down there last week and what we saw was heartbreaking and infuriating. We are willing to die on that hill. The appropriations process is to keep the government funded to make sure our troops are paid, that the federal government operates and in the middle of all that, we are having a serious fight about securing that border and we are insistent upon that. We have been since the day I got the gavel, and none of that has changed.”

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GOP lawmakers threaten to hold government funding until border is secured

Republican lawmakers threatened to hold up government funding in exchange for stronger border security during a press conference led by Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-M.D., Wednesday afternoon.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers began talks with White House officials in December, but have been unsuccessful in reaching a deal.

"What you're going to start witnessing is the House of Representatives doing whatever we can with the tools that are available to us to let the administration know that they are not going to get additional funding for their priorities until we see a secure border," Rosendale told reporters.

On Jan. 19, funding will expire for several federal departments, including Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Energy, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development.

On Feb. 2, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Defense Departments will also run out of funding. Congress may have to pass a continuing resolution, known as a CR, to keep agencies temporarily funded until a full budget is agreed upon.

"Don't tell me this is for want of federal legislation. This is for want of an utter, defiant, lawless refusal to enforce our border," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a member on the upper chamber's budget committee, told reporters on Wednesday.

"I tell President Biden, secure the border or shut it down. We're not going to continue to fund your government as if nothing had changed, when we've got this crisis unfolding on monumental proportions, whether it's all of government or just the White House toilet paper budget — I don't know — but there have to be consequences for him doing this........................

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-lawmakers-rail-against-border