Rep. Kat Cammack On The Costly Government Funding Bill: ‘A Christmas Tree Farm Of A Spending Package’

Florida Republican Congresswoman Kat Cammack joins Fox Across America With guest host Rich Zeoli to explain why she took to social media on Wednesday to humorously voice her opposition to the massive stopgap spending bill put forth to try and avert a government shutdown.

“It had every bad idea that you possibly could have all wrapped up with a bow on top. And they were going to try to put it on the floor for a vote at 5:00 yesterday. And they were going to do it under what’s called suspension, which means you suspend the rules you don’t have to have 72 hours to read it, and you don’t need 218 to pass it, because if you put it on suspension, that means that it doesn’t have to go through the proper committee process and it requires 270 votes. Well, the Democrats had already committed over 200 votes. And the fact that they pulled it at the last minute tells you how quick the ship was sinking. And that’s, you know, very much in large part to Elon and Vivek. And then, of course, President-elect Donald Trump put the final nail in the coffin saying this is a bad deal. And that’s what we’ve been saying all along, is that we want a clean slate for President Trump to come in and have the ability to put his policies in place without dealing with the baggage of Joe Biden. And so it went downhill fast. They yanked it from the floor. Now they’re trying to resuscitate what could be a quote unquote, clean C.R., which is just a rubber stamp of all the spending that has been going on up until this point. Kick that into mid-March, put a disaster package and a one year farm bill authorization. And I know that agriculture is probably the last thing that people are talking about or thinking about right now. But why that’s so important is every five years we pass what’s called a farm bill, and that sets all the agriculture policy for the next five years for domestic food production. If that expires, we revert back to 1936 agriculture policy. And if anyone knows their history, going back to post Great Depression policy was not a great time in America. We don’t want to revert back to that. And we have a lot of farmers and ranchers that they need that certainty locked in for actually getting lending to be able to put a crop in the ground. It gets a little in the weeds, no pun intended, but that’s really what they’re looking at.”

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