Congressman Cory Mills (R-FL), a staunch Trump supporter and ally, spoke to The Gateway Pundit Thursday after voting against the government funding bill dubbed the American Relief Act of 2024.
The bill came to the floor after a disastrous 1,547-page continuing resolution was rejected by the MAGA base, and House Speaker Mike Johnson was called out for negotiating an America Last funding bill.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump endorsed the new government funding bill, saying it’s “VITAL to the America First Agenda,” and called on all Republicans to vote in favor.
However, 38 Republicans voted in opposition.
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The government funding deadline is Friday at 11:59 pm. The House will reconvene Friday to pass a bill to keep the government open. “We’ll make some modifications that people can live with, get it on the floor, get our government open, and take care of the American people,” said Mills.
Like Mills, a number of Trump allies also opposed the bill because of government spending levels.
Earlier in the Day, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Agriculture, noted that a debt limit increase previously was one of the factors in Republicans’ successful effort to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. McCarthy agreed to take a hard line on increasing the statutory debt limit and use separate appropriations bills instead of omnibus spending, and conservative lawmakers were frustrated when he broke this promise.
Now conservatives are clamoring for a clean CR and a debt limit increase!
Isn’t that what Speaker McCarthy was vacated for?
How times change.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 19, 2024
After voting against the bill, Massie called for individual votes for each issue, including one bill for the continuing resolution, one debt ceiling bill, one disaster relief bill, and one bill for farmers. “Radical right? Individual bills for each issue,” he said.
This isn’t complicated.
Separate the bills and vote on them individually.
one vote on the clean CR
one vote on the debt limit
one vote on disaster relief
one vote on farm bailouts
Radical right? Individual bills for each issue.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 20, 2024
Cory Mills told The Gateway Pundit that he’s opposed to any continuing resolution that continues spending money at the current rate. “I think we can do this better, I think we can get more fiscally responsible, I think we can find fiscal sanity,” he said.
“But I think also, I think we can help the American people. So, we need to get President Trump’s agenda to succeed. We need to do that responsibly.”
Watch below:
Mills: Look, I’ve always said that I will not support a continuing resolution that spends at emergency COVID-level spending that Pelosi put in place. We should be at a 2019 +3.5 percent average, which means we’d spend at roughly a $1.477 trillion rate.
As of today, we’re spending a $2.23 trillion rate. That is not sustainable, and we will end up collapsing the entire country as a result of this spending. I will always support our farmers. I will always support our military as a veteran myself. I will always make sure that we support the disaster relief in the state of Florida.
But what I can’t do is allow them to go ahead and cram that into a bill to force you into a damned if you, damned if you don’t, no debt ceiling limits, and then go ahead and say, Yeah, let’s keep doing the same thing that Democrats do, but now because we’re in a Republican majority, that is somehow right.
So, I think we can do this better. I think we can get more fiscally responsible. I think we can find fiscal sanity. But I think also, I think we can help the American people. So, we need to get President Trump’s agenda to succeed, and we need to do that responsibly.
Conradson: What happens next? Does the government shut down?
Mills: It doesn’t shut down until tomorrow. This was on suspension, which takes a 2/3 majority. It’ll now go to rules. We’ll make some modifications that people can live with, get it on the floor, get our government open, and take care of the American people.
