On Wednesday, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) and 30 House Republicans warned that 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.
The Members urged Senate Republicans to “use every tool possible to kill this bill” and warned that “failure to do so will result in not only legislative and political consequences, but irrevocable consequences for our nation.”
The letter lists several of the omnibus’ most egregious provisions that will “continue the Washington status quo,” including funding a Federal Bureau of Investigation suppressing free speech and labeling parents as domestic terrorists, a State Department promoting all manner of radical ideology abroad, and, perhaps most importantly, a Department of Homeland Security refusing to secure the border.
“We must stop the assault on Texans and the American people,” the Members concluded. “Kill this terrible bill or there is no point in pretending we are a united party, and we must prepare for a new political reality.”
Full text of the letter can be found here and below.
Dear Senate Republican Colleagues, As you know, yesterday at 1:30a.m., the text of the Democrat-led omnibus appropriations package was released, and it confirmed what we already knew to be true – this bill is a full-scale assault on the American people. This 4,155-page bill spends $1.7 trillion to further empower the Biden administration’s tyrannical attack on the liberty and security of our constituents, and it must be opposed with any fiber of political fortitude Senate Republicans still have.
Once again, we urge Senate Republicans to use every tool possible to kill this bill. Failure to do so will result in not only legislative and political consequences, but irrevocable consequences for our nation.
This omnibus will undeniably continue the Washington status quo that Americans are fed up with. It will fuel the rampant inflation that is cutting into Americans’ paychecks. It will add to our $31 trillion national debt, digging a deeper hole for our children and grandchildren to crawl out of. And because 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.
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. 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. 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.
But perhaps most offensively, for at least nine months, this omnibus will deny the incoming House GOP majority any leverage to enact crucial policy changes needed to secure our border through the power of the purse. And not only does this bill disregard actual border security, it also doubles down by providing DHS with an additional $3.2 billion to continue processing and releasing illegal migrants at a faster pace and larger scale, which will only make this crisis worse. With this bill, the American people will endure at least nine more months of record fentanyl overdoses, surging migrant crossings, rampant cartel activity, property destruction, and migrant deaths. A vote in favor of this bill is a vote for every bit of it, and it will solidify Senate Republicans’ role in perpetuating this crisis.
On Monday, the Senate Republican leader inexplicably called this bill “a strong outcome for Republicans.” We wholly disagree – this bill completely contradicts everything the Republican party claims it stands for. We have a duty to stand up for Americans and put an end to the border crisis. We have a duty to use the power of the purse to stop the Biden administration’s radical agenda. And we have a duty to stand athwart the rampant government spending that has caused crushing inflation. Voting in favor of this bill is a dereliction of our duty on all counts.
The released legislative text confirmed this omnibus is an assault on the American people. As such, we reiterate that if any omnibus passes in the remaining days of this Congress, we 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.
Again, we must stop the assault on Texans and the American people. Kill this terrible bill or there is no point in pretending we are a united party, and we must prepare for a new political reality.
Sincerely,
Chip Roy
Member of Congress
Scott Perry
Member of Congress
Dan Bishop
Member of Congress
Andy Biggs
Member of Congress
Matthew Rosendale, Sr.
Member of Congress
Matt Gaetz
Member of Congress
Ralph Norman
Member of Congress
Bob Good
Member of Congress
Byron Donalds
Member of Congress
Andrew S. Clyde
Member of Congress
Diana Harshbarger
Member of Congress
Barry Moore
Member of Congress
Yvette Herrell
Member of Congress
Louie Gohmert
Member of Congress
Randy K. Weber
Member of Congress
Lauren Boebert
Member of Congress
Claudia Tenney
Member of Congress
Mary E. Miller
Member of Congress
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Member of Congress
Ronny L. Jackson
Member of Congress
Clay Higgins
Member of Congress
Russ Fulcher
Member of Congress
Mayra Flores
Member of Congress
Bill Posey
Member of Congress
W. Gregory Steube
Member of Congress
Jody Hice
Member of Congress
Anna Paulina Luna
Member of Congress-Elect
Andy Ogles
Member of Congress-Elect
Eli Crane
Member of Congress-Elect
Keith Self
Member of Congress-Elect
Eric Burlison
Member of Congress-Elect
GRASSLEY and ETNST are glaringly absent from this list of Republicans that actually care and are uniting to try to stop the insanity in this country.