FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
December 7, 2022
Contact: Press_Paul@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Rick Scott (R-FL), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Mike Lee (R-UT) sent a letter to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell expressing opposition to passing the Pelosi-Schumer omnibus spending bill in the current lame duck Congress.

“The American people sent an unmistakable message in the November midterm elections, making clear that they want a Republican-led House to serve as check on the unfettered spending of the current Democrat-controlled Congress. For the Senate to ram through a so-called “omnibus” bill—which would fund the entirety of the Pelosi-Schumer spending agenda through most of next year—would utterly disempower the new Republican House from enacting our shared priorities,” the Senators wrote. “Locking the new Congress into yet another year of Democrat policies would flout the will of the voters and prevent the incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives and the newly elected Republican Senators from moderating the reckless policy agenda of the last two years. Moreover, adding an increase or suspension of the debt ceiling for another year would issue Democrats a blank check and inevitably add trillions more to our crushing national debt.”

You can read the full letter HERE.

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