Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) issued the following statement on H. Res. 1061:
(On Wednesday), I voted no on H. Res. 1061, an over $500 billion, 1,050 page, “minibus”, appropriations bill that provides funding to part of the Biden administration for Fiscal Year 2024.
At the beginning of this Congress, House Republicans set out to cut spending and end the Biden administration policies destroying the American people’s way of life and prosperity. This bill is a massive surrender to the swamp’s business as usual on both fronts.
Instead of cutting spending, Republicans accepted budget gimmicks negotiated behind closed doors to blow past spending caps in law by $69 billion, which includes using a fake fund at the Department of Commerce that this bill relies on. When it’s all said and done, Republicans will have spent a total of $30 billion more than the levels set by Nancy Pelosi in the Fiscal Year 2023 omnibus that House Republicans almost unanimously opposed.
Further, these bills failed to include key policy riders that were included in the House Republican appropriations measures. Most importantly, this bill aids and abets Biden’s open borders policies by failing to include Republican riders that would defund sanctuary cities and the Department of Justice’s policy of rubber-stamping asylum claims. The bill also fails to end Biden’s electric vehicle mandate, ATF’s pistol brace ban, DEI offices and CRT across the federal government, FBI’s new headquarters, vax mandates at the VA, and many more radical progressive Democrat agenda items.
These utter failures will undoubtedly characterize the next batch of funding bills we are slated to consider. That spending bill will include funding for the Department of Homeland Security and Republicans will have to decide whether they will oppose it and demand the policy changes necessary to secure our border or be complicit in Biden and Mayorkas’ border crisis.
