Rep. Steube to Newsmax: CR Not a Republican Funds

[ad_1] The federal authorities remained shut down Thursday after Congress failed to achieve a funding deal as Republicans and Democrats remained deadlocked over Obamacare subsidies.

Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., informed Newsmax that Democrats have chosen to not vote for their very own persevering with decision, saying "it isn't a Republican funds."

"Mike Johnson would not need to go to the Democrats as a result of the invoice's already handed the Home," Steube mentioned in regards to the speaker on "American Agenda." " It is a CR. This is not a Republican appropriations invoice. We are persevering with the funds that has been handed during the last 4 years. I, frankly, did not wish to vote for it as a result of we're persevering with the identical funding ranges that have been pre-COVID period in the course of the Biden administration.

"It is a persevering with decision to fund the funds. It isn't a Republican funds. And it has to go to the Senate and get Democrats to vote for it. And so they wish to get unlawful immigrants' well being care paid for with the intention to vote for a unbroken decision to fund the authorities. It is simply the similar funding ranges that we have had. It isn't a Republican appropriations invoice."

Steube, who represents Florida's seventeenth Congressional District, mentioned he requested the GOP's Senate management to "eliminate this 60-vote threshold."

"Cross a funding invoice to fund the authorities," he mentioned. "You probably did it for judges to assist transfer Trump's judges alongside by the nominations and affirmation course of. Do it to fund the authorities, as a result of why ought to the nation be held hostage by [Sen. Chuck] Schumer and loopy Democrats desirous to give cash to unlawful immigrants and trillions of {dollars} away?"