WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) today released the following statement after voting against a Continuing Resolution that would fund a portion of the government through January 19 and another portion through February 2.
“Congress loves to operate under Continuing Resolutions, but there’s a certain irony in passing one to fund the government through Groundhog Day. Just like the movie, at the current rate, Congress is on track to wake up on February 2 and find itself in a similar predicament to the one it’s in today: no closer to a fully funded government and no closer to fixing our broken appropriations process. We passed a Continuing Resolution to give ourselves 45 days to address these issues and we wasted them. Unless we take steps to pass the bipartisan Preventing Government Shutdowns Act and reform the appropriations process by implementing biennial budgeting and consolidating committee jurisdiction, we’ll only continue to repeat the same fiscal failures.”
ICYMI: Last month, Gallagher penned an op-ed with Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) in the Wall Street Journal outlining how Congress can fix its fiscal failures and reform the budget process.
