{"id":1366954,"date":"2022-03-09T07:32:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1366954"},"modified":"2022-03-09T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T17:36:15","slug":"gop-concerned-about-massive-spending-bill-internal-policy-doc-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-concerned-about-massive-spending-bill-internal-policy-doc-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Concerned About Massive Spending Bill, Internal Policy Doc Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-concerned-about-massive-spending-bill-internal-policy-doc-shows%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1366954&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-09-at-12.02.40-PM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republicans have grave concerns about a massive spending bill released early Wednesday, an internal policy document obtained by The Daily Wire shows.<\/p>\n<p>The 2,741 page omnibus bill would provide $1.5 billion in discretionary spending that includes $730 billion in non-defense discretionary funding, according to an internal Republican Study Committee bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>That $730 billion in non-defense discretionary funding is a $46 billion of 6.7% increase over the fiscal year 2021, according to the policy document, and a\u00a0$782 billion in defense discretionary funding is an increase of $42 billion of 5.6% over the fiscal year 2021.<\/p>\n<p>These figures were kept secret until the release of the bill, the internal document said, suggesting that conservatives feel deprived of a voice in the negotiating process.<\/p>\n<p>Since the massive spending bill was only released early Wednesday morning \u2014 just 12 hours prior to a vote \u2014 Republican staffers are still combing through the document to make sure lawmakers are well aware of what it entails.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SWAMPSPENDING?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SWAMPSPENDING<\/a> THREAD: 1) We were sent vote times &#038; \u201cOmnibus\u201d spending bill at 230AM. 2) It is 2700 pages &#038; we vote at 1000AM. 4) Top-line spending appears to be $1.512 Trillion. 3) We are told it is a 6% increase year-over-year, NOT counting Ukraine or COVID Supp\u2026 (1\/6)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chiproytx\/status\/1501546268962828290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The policy document also notes that the timeline of the bill\u2019s release clearly violates the House\u2019s three day rule on releasing legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo new funding for border wall construction,\u201d the document says. \u201cNo additional funding for ICE agents. No additional funding to support Remain in Mexico policy. Decreases funding for CBP!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The omnibus spending bill allocates over \u201c$100 billion on GND [Green New Deal] initiatives total,\u201d according to the document, including to \u201cclimate change funding and provisions to \u201cadvance racial justice\u201d through the Department of Agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Instead of doing something to lower RECORD high gas prices, Dems\u2019 omnibus spends $100 BILLION on their Green New Deal agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJimBanks\/status\/1501572223076868108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is notable,\u201d the document says, \u201cbecause Biden was sued and lost for discriminating against white men in his distribution of COVID relief [agriculture] funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill also allocates $100 million for environmental justice activities at the United States Environmental Protection Agency,\u00a0$75 million for low or no emission vehicle grants, funds towards a renewable energy program at the Department of Energy, and Department of Energy policies promoting environmental justice.<\/p>\n<p>It also would mean the \u201clargest IRS funding boost in two decades with increase money for enforcement\u201d and includes \u201cover $26 billion in food stamp funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the Biden economy is so great,\u201d the policy document adds.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Study Committee document also notes that the bill would provide $286.5 million in funding to Title X family planning services that could be distributed to Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s administration had stripped family planning clinics that refer women for abortions of their Title X funding, but Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/05\/biden-reverses-trump-rule-abortion\/\">revoked that rule<\/a> in the first year of his presidency. The Biden administration rule, which went into effect in November, allows Title X federal family planning funds to go to health centers which refer patients for abortions<\/p>\n<p>The omnibus spending bill does not include protections from\u00a0Chinese espionage in grants to the National Science Foundation, the memo says, and it increases\u00a0NIH funding by ~10%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA massive jump\u2014Biden is thanking Fauci,\u201d the memo says, noting that \u201cthe bill would not bar funding for gain of function research by a foreign adversary, including China Russia, Iran, and North Korea, or gain of funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The omnibus bill would reportedly provide a total of $66 million for Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) which is an increase of $8 million over the enacted fiscal year 2021 levels, according to the policy document.\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have grave concerns about a massive spending bill released early Wednesday, an internal policy document obtained by The Daily Wire shows.The 2,741 page omnibus bill would provide $1.5 billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}