Sen. Mike Lee said Democratic leaders are setting up an extortive threat' by forcing lawmakers to either accept more federal spending or force a partial government shutdown.
for setting up late-year government spending drama and accused them of threatening to disrupt the Christmas holiday by forcing a vote on legislation that keeps the government running but also includes more federal spending.
House and Senate leaders are setting up a vote this week on a short-term spending bill to keep the government running until Dec. 23, allowing more time to write and pass a full-year spending bill next week. That agreement between House and Senate Democrats is likely to find enough support from Senate Republicans to pass it, but has no input from House Republicans, many of whom oppose new spending and want to focus on this issue next year when they control the House.
That plan would"allow Congress to approach this omnibus spending package with the kind of clear-headed thinking that is requiring, and not under the extorted dual-threat of shutdown and missing the Christmas holidays with family," Lee said."That’s the dual threat that this kind of spending practice puts us under."
"You put an important must-pass bill, in this case a spending bill without which the government will shut down, you put it right next to a scheduled recess," he said."The more critical and valued the recess, the more potent the threat becomes. And then you move it even closer to that recess."
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