Rep. Jayapal: ‘Please Don’t Call It a Continuing Resolution ... This Is a Republican Funding Bill’

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JAYAPAL: “That is why I’m very proud that House Democrats stayed united in voting against this Republican funding bill. Please don’t call it a continuing resolution. It’s not, because a continuing resolution keeps the levels of funding the same. This is a Republican funding bill. And I hope, and we have been working all day to help our Senate colleagues understand that they, too, need to stand united against a Republican funding bill that strips these critical benefits and programs and hands a slush fund and the keys to Elon Musk and Donald Trump to continue to strip Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid. That’s going to be a big fight. And I think every, every fight from here on in is going to be an opportunity for us to show — show working people that we stand up for them, to show veterans that we stand up for them.”