By Bethany Blankley (The Middle Sq.)
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY, mentioned on Monday he wouldn’t be voting for a seamless decision (CR) to fund the federal government, saying any debate or perceived combat over funding points between Republicans and Democrats is “political theater.”
He additionally mentioned a invoice to forestall noncitizens from voting received’t be signed into regulation.
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“Can we be honest with the American people about what’s going on here?” he requested colleagues at a U.S. Home Committee on Guidelines assembly held to debate the Persevering with Appropriations and Different Issues Act of 2025. The CR is a brief spending invoice Congress passes as an alternative of a balanced price range and particular person appropriations payments.
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY, mentioned on Monday he wouldn’t be voting for a seamless decision (CR) to fund the federal government, saying any debate or perceived combat over funding points between Republicans and Democrats is “political theater.”
He additionally mentioned a invoice to forestall noncitizens from voting received’t be signed into regulation.
“Can we be honest with the American people about what’s going on here?” he requested colleagues at a U.S. Home Committee on Guidelines assembly held to debate the Persevering with Appropriations and Different Issues Act of 2025. The CR is a brief spending invoice Congress passes as an alternative of a balanced price range and particular person appropriations payments.
Regardless, each will vote to fund “every freaking one of those things that we have exposed,” as an alternative of utilizing the one instrument Congress has to cease them.
“Why are we funding things we don’t like? We don’t have to,” he mentioned. The reply is, “because we’re addicted to spending.”
He additionally mentioned there’s normally “a bright shiny object” hooked up to the CR; this time it’s the SAVE Act, filed by U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. The invoice was filed to implement a variety of measures to make sure noncitizens don’t vote in federal elections.
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The Home handed it in June largely alongside celebration traces with 5 Democrats voting with Republicans. A coalition of almost two dozen attorneys common referred to as on the Senate to behave, to no avail, The Middle Sq. reported. The invoice has gone nowhere.
It was filed after Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, met with former President Donald Trump elevating issues that Democrats had been registering noncitizens to vote within the election in November.
“Election integrity is tied to the border,” Johnson mentioned. “We only want U.S. citizens to vote in U.S. elections, but there are some Democrats who don’t want to do that … because they want to turn these people into voters.”
Massie mentioned that whereas he agrees with the aim of the SAVE Act, including it to the CR was “good political theater. We’re going to see almost every Democrat cast a vote so that illegals can vote in our elections.”
The American folks might be “all revved up,” he mentioned, considering, “we’re going to save these elections. We’re going to stop the illegals from voting.”
“Really? How are you going to do that six weeks before the election?” he requested. “They’re already registered, if they’re going to vote, some of them probably already voted,” he mentioned of noncitizens, together with unlawful border crossers.
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“This SAVE Act ain’t going to save anything,” he continued. “It ain’t ever going to become law. It’s a false promise to get all the Republicans half pregnant. Then you’re going to get fully pregnant by the end of September when you vote for this CR,” which received’t have the SAVE Act hooked up anymore, he mentioned.
“This is political theater. We all know where it ends up. I’ve been here 12 years. I’ve seen it 12 times. I refuse to be a thespian in this failure theater.”
A CR with the SAVE Act hooked up “is an insult to Americans’ intelligence. The CR doesn’t cut spending, and the shiny object attached to it will be dropped like a hot potato before passage.”
Syndicated with permission from The Middle Sq..
