{"id":1781731,"date":"2022-12-20T13:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781731"},"modified":"2022-12-20T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:17:34","slug":"house-republicans-threaten-legislative-gridlock-for-senate-colleagues-who-support-reckless-omnibus-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-threaten-legislative-gridlock-for-senate-colleagues-who-support-reckless-omnibus-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Threaten Legislative Gridlock For Senate Colleagues Who Support Reckless Omnibus Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fhouse-republicans-threaten-legislative-gridlock-for-senate-colleagues-who-support-reckless-omnibus-bill%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=1781731&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--><p>More than a dozen House Republicans are demanding their Senate colleagues oppose a wasteful omnibus spending package that would fund the federal government for next year \u2014 or risk facing legislative gridlock once the party takes control of the House in January.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chiproytx\/status\/1605031549165899776?s=20&#038;t=RuDr4Q3gq-q_nAWlivw-lw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> sent to Senate Republicans on Monday, 13 GOP representatives called on the upper chamber to reject the proposed omnibus spending bill, noting that the American people didn\u2019t elect Republicans \u201cto continue the status quo in Washington,\u201d but to \u201cput aside the absurd spending and empowerment of Biden bureaucrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis slated \u2018omnibus spending bill\u2019 is an indefensible assault on the American people,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cIt is an assault on separation of powers. It is an assault on fiscal responsibility. It is an assault on basic civic decency. And a vote for any omnibus in the remaining days of a Democrat led government is a vote in favor of that assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Congress passes the spending package, it would fund the federal government through 2023, undercutting any leverage a new Republican House majority would have over spending priorities until the end of next year. As a means of encouraging Senate Republicans to vote against the measure, the 13 GOP representatives further warned that once in power, they will not hesitate to \u201coppose and whip opposition to any legislative priority of those senators who vote for this bill \u2014 including the Republican leader [Mitch McConnell].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d the document reads.<\/p>\n<p>Among the letter\u2019s signatories are Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Dan Bishop of North Carolina, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Matt Rosendale of Montana, Matt Gaetz and Byron Donalds of Florida, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Bob Good of Virginia, and Andrew Clyde of Georgia, as well as Rep.-elects Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, Andy Ogles of Tennessee, and Eli Crane of Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Totaling $1.7 trillion, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/JRQ121922.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just-released 4,155-page bill<\/a> includes numerous wasteful spending items, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/news\/majority\/chairman-patrick-leahy-d-vt-releases-fiscal-year-2023-omnibus-appropriations-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">including<\/a> nearly $45 billion in aid to Ukraine and NATO and more than $40 billion for drought and wildfire recovery. Also included is major funding for corrupt federal health departments, such as the National Institutes of Health ($47.5 billion) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ($9.2 billion).<\/p>\n<p>But the nearly 1,500-page bill doesn\u2019t just include pork barrel spending items. Buried within the measure is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/electoral-count-act-reforms-included-within-bidens-trillion-bipartisan-budget-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">provision<\/a> that would rewrite the 19th-century Electoral Count Act to \u201cclarify that the vice president only has a ceremonial role in counting Electoral College votes.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Authored by Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the legislation would additionally \u201crequire that at least one-fifth of lawmakers from both the House and Senate are needed to force a vote on certifying a state\u2019s electoral votes.\u201d As the law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are demanding their Senate colleagues oppose a wasteful omnibus spending package or risk facing legislative gridlock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1660463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4272,6919,10618,3653,5409,7991,6165,3756,3740,3723,5483],"class_list":["post-1781731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-colleagues","tag-federalist","tag-gridlock","tag-house","tag-legislative","tag-omnibus","tag-reckless","tag-republicans","tag-senate","tag-support","tag-threaten"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781731","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1660463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}