{"id":1784176,"date":"2022-12-22T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784176"},"modified":"2022-12-22T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:34:06","slug":"more-republican-house-members-sign-onto-promise-to-block-legislation-from-gop-senators-who-vote-for-omnibus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-republican-house-members-sign-onto-promise-to-block-legislation-from-gop-senators-who-vote-for-omnibus\/","title":{"rendered":"More Republican House Members Sign Onto Promise to Block Legislation From GOP Senators Who Vote for Omnibus"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fmore-republican-house-members-sign-onto-promise-to-block-legislation-from-gop-senators-who-vote-for-omnibus%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=1784176&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Pelosi-Schumer-McConnell-McCarthy-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Thirty-one House Republicans signed onto a letter Wednesday vowing to block legislation from any GOP senator who votes for the massive $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentPasted0\">On Tuesday, 13 House Republicans signed a letter\u00a0<a class=\"ContentPasted0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/20\/mccarthy-supplants-mcconnell-grim-reaper-house-gop-leader-joins-threats-block-legislation-senate-republican-who-votes-omnibus\/\">promising<\/a>\u00a0to block the legislative priorities of any Republican senator who votes for the omnibus deal with Democrats just days before Congress leaves town for Christmas. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) joined them via a tweet. Just one day later, 14 members vowing to combat GOP senators voting for the bill grew to 31\u00a0after McCarthy joined the effort.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis 4,155-page bill spends $1.7 trillion to further empower the Biden administration\u2019s tyrannical attack on the liberty and security of our constituents, and it must be opposed with any fiber of political fortitude Senate Republicans still have,\u201d the conservative House members <a href=\"https:\/\/roy.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/roy.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/roy-post-text-omni-letter_final-1.pdf\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The conservatives oppose the bill because the package maintains the status quo in Washington, DC, by spending money the nation does not have. America\u2019s debt stands at over $31 trillion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201cIt will add to our $31 trillion national debt, digging a deeper hole for our children and grandchildren to crawl out of,\u201d the letter continued. \u201cAnd because almost every Senate Republican has bloviated about inflation and the national debt at some point in the past two years, a vote for this bill should be viewed as a blatant display of hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs such, we reiterate that if any omnibus passes in the remaining days of this Congress, we will oppose and whip opposition to any legislative priority of those senators who vote for its passage \u2013 including the Republican leader,\u201d the letter detailed. \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<\/p>\n<p>Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Scott Perry (R-PA), and Andy Biggs (R-AZ), co-signers on Tuesday, were joined Wednesday by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Louie Gohmert (R-CO), Bill Posey (R-FL), and Rep.-elect Keith Self (R-TX), among others.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Democrats have been working to pass the omnibus bill before a self-imposed deadline of Thursday to avoid a shutdown at midnight on Friday. But negotiations have stalled since Sen. Mike Lee\u2019s (R-UT) Title 42 amendment has thrown a\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/21\/omnibus-stalls-title-42-amendment-causes-major-problems-short-term-funding-bill-discussed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrench<\/a>\u00a0in the process. As a result, Congress could have to pass a short-term spending resolution (CR) to keep the government open if the standoff continues.<\/p>\n<p>If Congress passes a short-term CR to keep the government open until February, House Republicans would win a large victory. Defeating the omnibus bill would improve House Republicans\u2019 position in the new Congress to gut many of the proposals in the bill \u2014 for example, the $45 billion worth of aid to Ukraine.\u00a0That $45 billion is in addition to the $66 billion of taxpayers\u2019 money lawmakers have already approved\u00a0 for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">About that $1.7T omnibus government spending bill? <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said this morning, &#8220;We&#8217;re getting ever closer to reaching an agreement, but we&#8217;re still not there. I hope that we will lock an agreement in some time later this morning.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oUjWrzieW2\">pic.twitter.com\/oUjWrzieW2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1605929034168270848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><i>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on\u00a0<\/i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8. He is the author of\u00a0<\/i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Politics-Slave-Morality-Wendell-Husebo-ebook\/dp\/B08PPYQSDZ%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><i>Politics of Slave Morality<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-one House Republicans signed onto a letter Wednesday vowing to block legislation from any GOP senator who votes for the massive $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package On Tuesday, 13 House Republicans signed a letter\u00a0promising\u00a0to block the legislative priorities of any Republican senator who votes for the omnibus deal with Democrats just days before Congress leaves &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1784179,"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":[547],"tags":[8994,9369,6962,4728,5458,3668,6203,3653,4762,4985,3826,7991,11235,6055,3819,3911,3709,4723,4474],"class_list":["post-1784176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-who","tag-for","tag-the","tag-block","tag-bongino","tag-from","tag-gop","tag-house","tag-legislation","tag-members","tag-more","tag-omnibus","tag-onto","tag-promise","tag-report","tag-republican","tag-senators","tag-sign","tag-vote"],"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\/1784176","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=1784176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}