Greene voting no on spending package: ‘Our Republican majority is a complete failure’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said late Thursday that she would be voting against the latest government funding package, citing the “complete failure” of the Republican majority in the House.
“Our Republican majority is a complete failure,” Greene said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “We have the power of the purse, which means we can control what the entire government does.”
“Tomorrow Speaker Johnson is funding the government that has created this invasion,” she said, posting a video of migrants at the country’s southern border. “I’m voting NO! SHUT IT DOWN!”
Johnson posted the same video, which appears to show migrants running toward the border wall in El Paso, Texas. Johnson in his post accused the Biden administration of “refusing to secure our border and protect America.”
As Congress barrels toward another shutdown deadline, leaders unveiled their $1.2 trillion spending package early Thursday. The House is set to vote on the package Friday, despite the frustration expressed by conservatives.
The six-bill measure covers the departments of Homeland Security (DHS), Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and State as well as the IRS and general government and foreign operations.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said he expects most Democrats to vote for it and said it was a “victory” that “every single one of the policy right wing changes sought by extreme MAGA Republicans in those critical areas is gone.”
Immigration and the southern border are seen largely as a crisis in Congress but lawmakers are split on how best to handle the influx of migrants. Congressional leaders had planned for a stopgap measure for the DHS but Republicans said the plan changed after the White House rejected the proposal and said more funding needed to go to the agency that oversees the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
GOP members were happy that the detention bed capacity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement was increased and Democrats celebrated what they described as investments in border security and the lack of funding going toward border wall construction.
Funding could lapse early Saturday morning, leaving lawmakers little time to pass the spending package.