Members Of Congress Supporting The Spending Bill Would Rather You Not Know What's In It For THEM

Posted • December 18, 2024: We've seen this circus before: There's a looming Friday deadline as Congress scrambles to pass a Continuing Resolution to avoid a government shutdown. Conservative Republicans, Rep. Chip Roy among them, have been hammering the bill and what it contains: Cavuto: "Is Speaker Johnson jeopardizing becoming speaker again?" - Chip Roy: "It is not something that is going to earn favor with the conference…What this has now become, is a Christmas tree bill, and it should NOT be moving forward!" - "When you get transparency on a bill like this, the American people see it. Now Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk are exposing it. Suddenly, these guys can't hide. The emperor has no clothes." -- Conservative Republicans don't like all the spending in the bill, and House Speaker Mike Johnson said he doesn't either but supports it anyway because it's the best that can be done.

Rep. Roy said that there was previously a 72-hour rule to give lawmakers time to read and scrutinize bills, but not this time. For some reason though, there are many in Congress who would rather drop a 1,500-plus page bill and not give members, media and Americans in general time to read it before a vote occurs. There are many, many reasons for that, and among them is what's in the for members of Congress. Apparently the authors of the bill are trying to sneak themselves a pay raise: Congress gives itself a pay raise and opts itself out of ObamaCare in the new, 1,547-page, House continuing resolution to keep funding the central government. (…)

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