by Madeliene Hubbard at Just the News
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) is leading nine House Republicans and three members of Congress-elect in urging GOP senators to not vote for the finalized spending bill, which they called “an indefensible assault on the American people.”
In a letter Monday addressed to “Senate Republican Colleagues,” the lawmakers criticized executive branch agencies and “Biden bureaucrats” for an “abuse of power and dereliction of duty,” and said Congress needs to use the power of the purse to secure the southern border.
“This slated ‘omnibus spending bill’ is an indefensible assault on the American people. It is an assault on the separation of powers. It is an assault on fiscal responsibility. It is an assault on basic civic decency. And a vote for any omnibus in the remaining days of a Democrat led government is a vote in favor of that assault,” the Republicans wrote.
The members threatened that if the Senate passes the bill,…
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