Amid stalled spending talks in Congress, Utah Sen. Mike Lee said he hopes Republicans can avoid a shutdown.
never support a continuing resolution or omnibus spending package. These holdouts caused the House to close shop early on Thursday after several failed votes — effectively canceling a continuing resolution vote scheduled for Saturday.
"Some of the guys in the House who opposed this thing this week did so on the grounds that 'I will never vote for any .' I don't share that view at all," Lee said. "A can serve an appropriate purpose. ... And I thought that was good." Despite Republicans lacking control of the Senate or White House, Lee says the Republican majority in the House should mean something.
When asked what a conservative "win" would look like coming out of next week's appropriations battle, Lee's focus was more on a shift in expectations than a breakthrough solution. "One of the problems with that is the firm tends to not be very cautious about how we spend money," Lee said. "This is how we end up with trillion dollar, sometimes multi-trillion, dollar annual deficits. And that's exactly why we're $33 trillion in debt now, is that this has gone on for year, after year, after year. ... It makes the firm and those who assist in this process more powerful every time they do it. But it does so at the expense of the American people.
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