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On the recordSeptember 12, 2024
All the talk in Washington is about whether we will have this flavor of a continuing resolution for government funding or that flavor of a continuing resolution. What that does is it presents the entire funding of the United States Government as an up-or-down vote, an up-or-down proposition. That is precisely the reason we are nearly $38 trillion in debt. We have to break the fever dream of governing by omnibus spending bill and continuing resolution, and we have to get to single-subject spending bills where these agencies have to defend their budget in its programmatic review. The reason that doesn't happen is because the lobbyists and the special interests who run this town and who own the leaders on both sides want it that way. They don't want any itemized review. We have to get back to those single-subject bills or we will continue this path we are on where we are adding $1 trillion in debt to the national debt every 100 days. The American people don't want it. Only the folks in Washington want it, and I am going to keep demanding a change in the way we think, breaking the fever dream, and getting back to single-subject bills. I will vote against these continuing resolutions. ____________________
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Matt Gaetz
Republican · Florida

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