CONGRESSMAN MO BROOKS VOTES "NO" ON CONTINUING RESOLUTION THAT HASTENS AMERICA'S INSOLVENCY AND HURTS NATIONAL DEFENSE
Statement
Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) voted "No" today on H.R. 6119, another "debt junkie" continuing resolution that hastens America's suffering a debilitating insolvency and bankruptcy, harms the Department of Defense's and NASA's ability to plan for the future, and includes billions in funding for resettlement of illegal aliens and unscreened and unvetted Afghans.
Congressman Brooks said, "America's debt will soon blow through the $30 trillion mark. That is roughly $90,000 in debt for every man, woman and child in America. America has suffered $3 trillion deficits in back-to-back years for the first time in history. No one knows how bad 2022 will be but this reckless continuing resolution is certain to make America's insolvency risk worse. We simply have too many economically illiterate and reckless spenders in Congress whose spending binges have contributed to the inflation that's hammering American families.
Brooks continued, "Continuing Resolutions, by their very nature, hurt national security, NASA, and countless private sector contractors and businesses. Temporary funding deprives agencies and contractors of the ability to plan long-term, make sound financial decisions, and hire new employees. Under a continuing resolution, agencies cannot begin new programs, thus trapping research and development in the past and hindering government agencies' use of the latest technological innovations. Congress should fund the government through annual appropriations bills that give departments certainty of funding so that they can operate as efficiently as possible."
Brooks concluded, "This is not how Washington should work. And, I won't support such a harmful way of conducting Congress's business. What's more, the continuing resolution has extraneous provisions such as billions in handouts and give-a-ways for newly imported Afghanistan evacuees who were never properly vetted. The overwhelming majority of Afghan evacuees are adult males. Very few evacuees helped American forces in the war in Afghanistan, and we should not be taking hard-earned money from American taxpayers to give welfare to Afghans."
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