On Wednesday, Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) released the following statement after his vote against H.R. 9494, the Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act, 2025.
“The House of Representatives just voted down the CR with the SAVE Act attached to it,” said Rep. Rosendale. “Finally, enough of the representatives have been honest with themselves and with the voters to say, you know something to say, that first of all, it’s not going to be implemented or passed by the Senate, and if it was and it truly wasn’t going to be able to be implemented for this year’s elections anyway. So, they have been able to defeat this bill, with, I think it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 of us Republicans voting against it, which puts us in a position to go back and do our work properly which is to pass appropriation bills to transparently and properly fund the federal government.”
Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) issued the following statement:
“Today, the House was presented with a list of bills, including S. 1146, H.R. 9076, and H.R. 7213, that I could not vote for. While the intentions behind these bills are admirable and commendable, together, they authorize billions in federal spending without corresponding offsets.
We are $35 trillion in debt and spend more on interest payments on the debt than we do on national defense. That is because we have spent decades refusing to responsibly appropriate and authorize programs. This country will not survive if we keep spending money we don’t have.
Moreover, I voted against S.1146 as a matter of keeping my word. In a letter I sent on December 19, 2022, I pledged to vote against any legislative priority put forward by any GOP senator who voted for the fiscal year 2023 omnibus, which — among its myriad problems — was passed in a lame duck Congress controlled by Democrats and perpetuated the federal government’s war on the liberty and security of the American people.”
I agree we need our representatives to do 12 separate bills and gut funding. However, that’s never happening and the democrats will vote with Johnson on whatever massive funding bill he decides on, so as usual, the democrats and neocons win.