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@RandPaulReview "No fiscal conservative should support this" @RandPaul slams funding bill, $2 trillion spending deficit

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) explained on The Alex Marlow Show that the stop-gap continuing resolution (CR) enables Republicans to focus on passing legislation to slash spending and lower inflation.Perry, the former House Freedom Caucus chairman, spoke to Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief and host of The Alex Marlow Show as the House passed a continuing resolution (CR), a stop-gap spending bill that freezes government funding for six months.Although conservatives have long abhorred CRs, especially as recent CRs have kept Biden-era spending levels and other policies in place, Perry and members of the Freedom Caucus have championed the need to pass the current...

President Donald Trump is halfway home towards cementing the first step of his government spending agenda.The House passed a continuing resolution (CR) Tuesday to continue current spending levels – with some modifications favored by Republicans – through the end of the fiscal year September 30.The vote on the relatively clean CR followed a successful procedural vote earlier in the afternoon that cleared the way for passage.The final tally was 217 to 213. Only one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), opposed the legislation. Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) was the sole Democrat to cross the aisle.Conservatives have long loathed CRs, yet Trump...