Tom Cole: “The speed at which this has evolved reminds me sometime of the opioid crisis or things like that where we have seen…”

Our conference refuses to let the obstruction and inaction of Senate Democrats trigger another manufactured shutdown at the end of September. That is why we are acting before a funding lapse crisis, not in response to it.

The bill before us is a clean, narrowly tailored continuing resolution that keeps the government open and operating. Nothing more. Nothing less.

We're going to be in a crunch time.

Like you, Mr. President, Steve has been the victim of lawfare conducted by the Biden Administration