Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) urged Congress to return to its failed 1,500-page spending bill.
“It’s time to go back to the original agreement we had just a few days ago. It’s time the House votes on our bipartisan CR. It’s the quickest, simplest, and easiest way we can make sure the government stays open while delivering critical emergency aid to the American people,” he said.
“If the House put our original agreement on the floor today, it would pass, and we could put the threat of a shutdown behind us,” he declared. “Our agreement would keep the government open, provide emergency aid for communities battered by hurricanes and other natural disasters, support our seniors, support our doctors, nurses, rural hospitals, and protect our farmers from the dairy cliff. As I said, the only, only way to get anything done is through bipartisanship.”
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) said of Schumer’s statement, “Ideally, we will vote on individual bills (disaster, ag, clean cr, and debt ceiling increase) and NOT merge them. Meaning @SenSchumer will then be forced to own what passes and fails. His whole plan of forcing us to vote on his 1500 page disaster will not happen.”
Vivek Ramaswamy wrote on X in response to the “pork-fest” spending bill, “Yes, it is possible to enact a simple 1-page Continuing Resolution, instead of 1,500+ page omnibus pork-fest. Here it is.”
His example said, “Making further continuing appropriates for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025.”
“This is what a clean CR looks like,” Ramaswamy added. “I still don’t love it because it permits the historical spending excesses to continue, but at bare minimum, we shouldn’t be stacking even more waste on top.”