Ridiculous amount of pork in latest bill to avoid government shutdown
As a partial government shutdown looms, the House Freedom Caucus has called on Republicans to oppose the ‘Swamp Omnibus’ bill, criticizing it for containing a ridiculous amount of pork. This government funding package is designed to prevent a partial shutdown set for Friday.
“The House Freedom Caucus opposes the $1.65 trillion omnibus spending bill, which will be decided in two halves, the first being brought to the floor this week under suspension of the rules,” Freedom Caucus wrote in a statement.
The group continued: “Even in the face of $34.4 trillion in national debt, the omnibus will bust the bipartisan spending caps signed into law less than a year ago and is loaded with hundreds of pages of earmarks worth billions.”
We pointed out Sunday that US debt is rising at the pace of $1 trillion every 3 months – or – 100 days (read: Hartnett: $1 Trillion Every 100 Days).
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) coined the new funding package the “Swamp Omnibus.” It was proposed on Sunday, ahead of Friday’s deadline, to avoid a partial government shutdown.
“In the #SwampOmnibus, the [House GOP] SURRENDERS key demands passed in House [appropriations] bills. “This means MORE ILLEGALS, LESS FREEDOM, & we’ve yet to see the bill that funds Radical Progressive Democrats’ mass-release policies & NGO’s behind it,” Roy wrote on X.
He continued: “The #SwampOmnibus comes in the context of Congress blowing past BIPARTISAN SPENDING CAPS enacted last year… by $69 BILLION… funding mass-illegal alien releases & radical progressive Democrat-run government $30 billion MORE than Pelosi.”
Despite the lack of earmarks for border security, the funding bill included a “GREEN agenda to limit beef production, and by the corporate meat oligopoly to DOMINATE small ranchers,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) wrote on X.