The United States House of Representatives passed the $1.2 trillion consolidated budget measure for fiscal year 2024, which includes millions of dollars in earmarks.
The House issued the 1,012-page Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024 just after 2:00 a.m.EST on Thursday, less than 48 hours before Friday’s deadline, to pass a bill to finance the government for the fiscal year.
The package will allocate $1.2 trillion of public money to fund over 70% of the federal government until Sept. 30, 2024—including the departments of Defense, State, the Treasury, Homeland Security, Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services, as well as the White House, federal judiciary, congressional offices, and all independent agencies of the government.
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By a vote of 286 yeas to 134 nays, the House met the two-thirds majority requirement to suspend the rules and pass the package.
On Thursday, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz highlighted some of the waste found in the latest federal spending bill that was unveiled as the deadline for another potential government shutdown loomed.
Following the passing of the package on Friday, Gaetz blasted its passage.
“Today, I voted emphatically against yet another trillion-dollar spending package. I would rather die on the field politically than continue to surrender to America’s defeat and demise. Surrendering is precisely what this omnibus does: it surrenders on the border, on the budget, and on the bureaucrats that are choking out the economic freedom of our citizens,” said Gaetz.
“I will continue to vote against these packages, speak out against them, debate against them, and do everything I can to encourage my colleagues to join me,” said Gaetz.
Gaetz also noted Thursday that the bill fails to boost border security, funnels money to Planned Parenthood, and funds “all kinds of LGBTQAIXYZ stuff.”
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“And what does it do for the American people?” he continued. “Higher prices, more inflation, larger debts, growing deficit — and no political courage to take it on.”
“I’d rather die on the field politically than continue to surrender to America’s defeat and demise,” he added. “And surrender is precisely what this omnibus spending bill does. It surrenders on the border. It surrenders on the budget. It surrenders on the bureaucrats that are choking out the economic freedom of our citizens.”
On X on Thursday, Gaetz provided a few examples of the lard laced into the bill.
He pointed out that New Jersey’s Democratic senators support giving nearly $500,000 to a state organization that “force-feeds the LGBT agenda in schools.”
“This group assists in finding gender mutilation surgeries for minors and harasses schools that prevent biological men from using women’s bathrooms, participating in women’s sports, and more,” Gaetz posted. “These conversations belong in the home, not at school. This is sickening!”
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In another post, Gaetz noted that Wisconsin’s Democratic senator supports roughly $500,000 a group that promotes LGBT programs targeting teenagers.
“Their organization publicly advertises that these minors do not need parental consent to join. They even provide binders, gaffs, and ‘Trans Tape Kits’ to minors in order to help transition children,” Gaetz wrote. “Taxpayer dollars SHOULD NOT be funding this!”
Finally, Gaetz pointed to a request from Connecticut’s Democratic senators who want $155,000 for an organization called “Make The Road CT.”
“Their Executive Director recently criticized Joe Biden for rightfully calling Laken Riley’s murderer an ‘illegal,’” Gaetz observed. “No taxpayer dollars should go towards an organization that sympathizes with savage illegal killers over American victims.”
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