According to recent reports, the recent spending bill proposed by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) featured multiple calls to redefine commonly used terms, such as “criminal” and “homeless,” with overtly leftist language. MAGA Republican Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) called attention to various pieces of the continuing resolution (CR) that call for new euphemistic language, such as ditching the term “criminal offender” to “justice involved individual.”
As part of a lengthy thread posted to X, Rep. Mace called out some of the “woke nonsense” found in the bill. Citing several portions of the legislation, she wrote, “Section 102, Page 947: Redefines “homeless individuals” to “individuals experiencing homelessness.” Calling out another, she said, “Section 102, Page 947: Redefines “homeless children” to “children experiencing homelessness.”
Another instance of the bill read, “Section 111, Page 958: Redefines “out of school youth” to “opportunity youth.” Mace also called out, “Section 111, Page 958: Redefines “low-skilled adults” to “adults with foundational skill needs.” Moreover, another section said, “Section Page 1398: Redefines “for criminal offenders in criminal institutions and for institutionalized individuals” to “justice involved individuals in correctional institutions and for other institutionalized individuals. … Section 208, Page 1400: Redefines “criminal offender” to “justice-involved individual.”
Sen. Josh Hawley also called out the resolution, claiming it was being intentionally rushed last minute to force Congress would be forced to vote on it without time to properly read it. “By law, Congress is supposed to pass a budget in September,” Hawley said. “They’re supposed to do it in 10 separate budget bills so that we can debate them, read them, pass them, and they haven’t done any of that.”
The Missouri Republican continued, “They obviously blew right through that September deadline, then they get to the end of the year and it’s a huge pile up and they are counting on the fact that there’s no time left, that nobody will have time to read this. That’s what they want.” He added, “They are banking on that. They don’t want us to read and find what they jammed into this thing.
“That’s why they’re now trying to rush a vote tonight. Democrats have been doing this for decades, but the fact that Republicans are doing it is just disgusting,” he further noted. Hawley maintained that the bill would be “hugely harmful” to Trump “because what’s going to happen is they’re going to spend all this money on Democrat priorities and other garbage.”
The American Tribune reported on criticism geared toward Speaker Johnson over the “bipartisan spending surrender.” Commenting on the continuing resolution, Johnson said, “This is a small CR that we had to add things to that were out of our control. We’ve got manmade disasters. I wish it weren’t necessary. I wish we hadn’t had record hurricanes in the fall. And I wish our farmers were not in a bind so much that predators are not able to lend to them.”
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), slammed the CR, writing, “Many of the loudest, self-proclaimed ‘@DOGE Heroes’ in Congress will vote for the CR—even though it flies in the face of everything @DOGE is trying to fix & perpetuates the very problems Republicans railed against while campaigning this year. Then they’ll say ‘@DOGE will fix it!’”
Watch Speaker Johnson comment on Newsmax about the CR here:
Featured image credit: By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America – Mike Johnson, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=139920652
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