Posted on 02/18/2024 6:26:06 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The conservative House Freedom Caucus is actively pushing House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to attach a House-passed border security bill that's sitting in the U.S. Senate to the next spending bill that Congress must pass to avoid a government shutdown.
H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act of 2023, passed the House in May. The bill would end the Biden administration's "catch and release" policy at the border as well as force the administration to restart construction of the border wall along open areas of the border, among other actions.
"I think we ought to be willing to have a fight over securing the border. I think we ought to refuse to fund the government if the administration continues to be unwilling to secure the border, then we ought to tie the funding of the government to border security implementation where some funds are held back until the measurables are met, the performance metrics that demonstrate that the border is being secured. And we do it to through Sept. 30 at the FRA levels," said House Freedom Caucus Bob Good, R-Va., during an exclusive interview with Just the News on Friday.
Good noted that he opposed the Financial Responsibility Act, which reflected the agreement between former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden.
"We had a chance last summer to have greater wins, but we didn't utilize the leverage that we had," he said. "That's why we have a new speaker. But it's a different reality. You recalibrate and you don't always get to fight the battle you want to fight. You have to sometimes fight the battle that you're in. I think the best case scenario would be a CR at FRA levels with no side deals, no gimmicks, no plus plus-ups, true $1.59 trillion spending with border security...
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Really
NO MORE CRs!
How difficult is that to understand?
Republicans want to back down now so they can back down again in March? What a bunch of predictable losers.
They're here to stay. Otherwise, they would have to do their actual job...can't be having that...
All the Senate has to do is pass HR2. Schumer won’t bring it to the floor...cuz he’s afraid it will pass....and it probably will.
Whatever happened to the Line Item Veto?
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