I’m pretty sure this one has all the ******** it in.
Well it definitely has some ******** in it and now the New Congress will have to get busy once they get sworn in.
Notwithstanding significant progress over the last few days, I voted NO on H.R. 10545, the 3rd version of the government funding “CR.”
While it was a marked improvement on the 1,547 page “cramnibus” that was released earlier this week, it still included $110 billion in supplemental funding with no offsets or pay-fors, which I cannot support.
It is notable that our much derided efforts this week as “fiscal hawks” resulted in two important things: 1) avoiding $5 trillion being added to our existing $36 trillion national debt with zero spending cuts or structural reforms; but 2) delivering for President Trump a path to stop Chuck Schumer from abusing the debt ceiling to roil financial markets through a framework for substantial and necessary spending cuts.
Merry Christmas.