Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) revealed on The Alex Marlow Show that one Republican lawmaker bristled about how the stop-gap spending did not have any earmarks, including his own.
Perry spoked to Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Marlow as the House passed the stop-gap spending bill, otherwise known as a continuing resolution (CR), that freezes government spending for six months.
The Pennsylvania conservative argued that the advancement of the CR is a victory in itself, as it blocked congressional leadership from advancing an omnibus spending bill.
“What’s different and the context about this is that we didn’t get our appropriations done, but our leadership wanted to do an omnibus. They wanted that four corners deal. The CR is not the four corners deal. They don’t want the CR; they’ve been forced into it by people like me and quite honestly, the president,” Perry said.
The former Freedom Caucus chairman also cheered the CR’s lack of earmarks.
“There are no earmarks in this thing,” he said.
This is a marked difference from the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill passed days before Christmas in 2022 which contained seemingly limitless carveouts for special interests via earmarks.
“This is billions of dollars of earmarks that are off the table,” Perry explained. He then noted that one GOP lawmaker vented to him about the lack of his earmarks in the legislation.
“I had a Republican member complaining to me at a meeting this morning. He’s grumbling, well I guess I have to vote for this, but you know, my earmarks aren’t it. I’m thinking, you’re talking to the guy, brother,” Perry said.
“I’m not into that,” he said.
The Keystone State conservative also noted that America has not seen a normal congressional appropriations process. He said that the last time Congress went through the “normal” appropriations process was in 1996.
“We have to find a new way to do business,” he argued.
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