In terms of the appropriations legislation for the next fiscal year, the HFC said in a statement Monday that “we remain committed to restoring the true FY 2022 topline spending level of $1.471 trillion without the use of gimmicks or reallocated rescissions to return the bureaucracy to its pre-Covid size while allowing for adequate defense funding.”
“In the eventuality that Congress must consider a short-term extension of government funding through a continuing resolution, we refuse to support any such measure that continues Democrats’ bloated Covid-era spending and simultaneously fails to force the Biden administration to follow the law and fulfill its most basic responsibilities,” the caucus continued. “Any support for a ‘clean’ continuing resolution would be an affirmation of the current FY 2023 spending level grossly increased by the lame-duck December 2022 omnibus spending bill that we all vehemently opposed just seven months ago.”
The HFC declared that its members will refuse to support any CR that does not include the House-passed Secure the Border Act, “address the unprecedented weaponization” of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and “end the Left’s cancerous woke policies in the Pentagon undermining our military’s core warfighting mission.”
Democrats in Congress quickly warned that the faction of Republicans was up to no good, with Schumer saying in a statement Monday that “if the House decides to go in a partisan direction it will lead to a Republican-caused shutdown.”
If you won’t let the government run, then you shouldn’t be running government.
The time for negotiation with political terrorists long past, and all the Freedom Caucus is demonstrating is that it’s worthless to negotiate with them on anything. They want the US economy to crater before the elections - they know it’s the only thing that will take the political focus off of Roe v. Wade and their ongoing assault on civil rights and the middle class.
That recent Fitch downgrade of the US credit rating was a direct result of this, just as it was in 2011 when S&P did the same:
Make no mistake - they will burn the US to the ground before they relinquish power, and unless it’s taken from them, they will use it to oppress and financially devastate any group they find distasteful.
If you are not white, male, and make less than $300,000 a year, the GOP views you as an enemy - and they don’t care how many people they have to hurt to put you in your place.
Remember this at the polls.