Republicans who supported Omnibus bill betrayed their party and taxpayers
To the editor:
The Republicans who voted for the $1.7 trillion, 4,000-page Omnibus bill constitute a betrayal of the 118th Congress and past precedent: In each and all of the last five times the majority changed, the new Congress was allowed to craft a budget.
Republicans are supposed to be political party of smaller government and fiscal responsibility. The 18 Republican senators and the nine House Republicans did violate those principles by supporting an Omnibus Spending Bill while the Democrats remained in charge of both the Senate and House. They could have forced and passed a Continuing Resolution and readdressed Federal Spending in the next Congress — now this Congress — when the Republicans would be charge of the House and have some leverage.
The omnibus bill includes $773 billion in non-defense domestic spending with $5 billion worth of earmarks and $45 billion for Ukraine’s border defense and $410 million for border security of other countries. It excludes funding for our border patrol and for completing a border wall to protect for our Southern Border.
Republican voters are tired of politicians who do not put America first. If politicians are concerned with humanitarian crises and protecting borders, spending billions of taxpayer dollars, they should start with everyone who pays taxes and is living in the U.S.
Republicans will win when they get back to being the party of fiscal responsibility.Until then they will keep losing to Democrats and keep losing Republican voters, because there’s no clear difference between the two.
Lou Walker
Cape Coral