CV NEWS FEED // The Republican-controlled House passed the $1.2 trillion “minibus” spending bill after many conservatives indicated strong opposition to the legislation.
HR 2882 passed by a margin of 286 to 134. The bill was extremely controversial within the House Republican Conference. Just under 53% of voting Republicans opposed it.
CBS News reported that “Democrats voted for Friday’s bill by a margin of 185 in favor to 22 against, compared to the 101 to 112 split among Republicans.”
Also according to CBS, the “minibus” will “fully fund the government through September” and passed just hours before a “midnight deadline [averting] a partial shutdown.”
In the day before the bill’s passage, many people in the pro-life movement petitioned Congress to vote against HR 2882, citing several provisions in the legislation that use taxpayer dollars to fund abortion – among other concerns.
CatholicVote Director of Governmental Affairs Tom McClusky wrote in a letter to House members:
The legislation is not only the product of a broken system, but it also seeks to perpetuate the system while doing nothing to counter the numerous dangerous actions of the Biden administration to destroy our culture, our economic system, and American families.
“CatholicVote sees no avenue other than opposing the legislation,” McClusky emphasized.
He pointed to HR 2882 containing “numerous earmarks worth tens of millions of dollars being
directed to organizations that support child mutilation.”
“One such grant, $400K earmark for an organization giving confused thirteen-year-olds binding and tucking clothing without parental permission,” McClusky indicated. “Another earmark gives $1.8 million to a facility that performs late-term abortions in Rhode Island. The benefitted organization also heavily promotes abortion as healthcare on its social media.”
“The legislation also funds the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),” McClusky added in his letter.
He explained that the Biden administration has “been working to turn the program into one that advances abortion as well as forcing countries that value human life to change their position to one of promoting the destruction of nascent human life.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Chip Roy, R-TX, gave a passionate speech on the House floor stating that the over $1 trillion bill does not contain any provisions to quell the intensifying crisis at the nation’s southern border.
“This bill does not include one single policy necessary to secure the border!” he said. “And I’m tired of hearing Republicans go to the microphone, whether they’re in leadership or rank-in-file, and say otherwise – because it’s not true!”
The congressman continued:
You’re going to give more funding for more border patrol agents to process more illegal aliens who are overrunning our border, overrunning our cities, overrunning our hospitals, overrunning our jails, overrunning our schools, driving mass crime into our communities, resulting in the death of Laken Riley, resulting in the death of Kayla Hamilton, resulting in the death of too many people for me to sit here and mention – and Republicans are going to cower in the corner tomorrow, wring their hands, and say we can’t talk about a shutdown.
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-SC, agreed with Roy.
“Not ONE CENT of this minibus will go towards our southern border wall,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter) late Friday morning. “If you are a Republican who speaks out about Biden’s border crisis, don’t let your words be empty and meaningless. Vote NO on this minibus.”
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-AZ, wrote that a vote “for today’s atrocious spending bill is a vote for Chinese terrorism.”
“We’ve had over 30,000 illegal aliens from China cross our border under this Administration’s border policies,” Biggs noted. “You vote for it, you own it.”
