The number of House Republicans who have signed a letter promising to obstruct legislation from any GOP senator who supported the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending measure has risen to 31, including existing and prospective members.
A letter with the promise to veto any legislation from a Republican senator who voted with Democrats for the omnibus bill was signed on Monday by 13 House Republicans.
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Louie Gohmert, Bill Posey, and Rep.-elect Keith Self, R-Texas, among others, joined Monday letter co-signers Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas; Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.; Scott Perry, R-Pa.; and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, was one of the newcomers on Wednesday who pledged to oppose these GOP senators.
The GOP House members said that the 4,155-page package, which would spend $1.7 trillion to strengthen the Biden administration’s oppressive assault on their people’ liberty and security, “must be rejected with every ounce of political resolve Senate Republicans still possess.”
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Republicans oppose the budget proposal because it spends money that the country does not have to sustain the status quo in Washington, D.C. At this time, there is more than $31 trillion in debt.
The letter continued, “It will deepen the hole for our children and grandkids to climb out of as it adds to our $31 trillion national debt. “And a vote for this bill should be seen as a flagrant act of hypocrisy because practically every Senate Republican has blathered about inflation and the national debt at some point in the past two years.
As a result, the letter stated, “We stress that if any omnibus passes in the final days of this Congress, we will oppose and whip opposition to any legislative priority of those senators who vote for its passage – including the Republican leader.” We shall reject any rule, any consent request, any suspension voice vote, or any roll call vote on any such Senate bill, and we will take every other action in our power to obstruct even the most insignificant legislative and policy endeavors of such senators.
