House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy gave an approximately 25-minute floor speech opposing a $1.7 trillion omnibus government funding package, his final show of opposition to the funding bill before its expected passage.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Friday gave an approximately 25-minute floor speech opposing a $1.7 trillion omnibus government funding package, his final show of opposition to the funding bill before its expected passage later that day.
McCarthy criticized Democrats’ often-repeated statement that they will put “people over politics,” pointing to various ”left wing pet projects” funded in the omnibus bill — some of which are named after members. McCarthy had mounted a strong show of opposition to the omnibus package leading up to the vote, arguing that Republican senators should force a continuing resolution to fund the government until Republicans take control of the House next year and can negotiate a smaller funding package.from hard-line members to thwart bills from senators who vote for the omnibus package, pledging that those bills would be “dead on arrival” if he is Speaker. to lobby senators against the omnibus this week.
The chamber was mostly empty for McCarthy’s speech, with more than half of the members filing paperwork to vote by proxy ahead of the Christmas holiday and a massive winter storm spanning much of the country. But several GOP members sat directly behind McCarthy in view of the camera for the speech, including Reps. Kelly Armstrong , Tim Burchett , Stephanie Bice and Andrew Clyde .
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