Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Fox News Wednesday that his solution to Congress' spending chaos would be to kill the bill and pass a “short-term continuing resolution” instead.
Congress was thrown into chaos Wednesday by Republicans. opposed It was introduced late on Tuesday as a stop-gap measure to keep government funding going until the spring. On “Jesse Watters Prime Time,” Mr. Watters wondered what Mr. Gingrich would do if he were the current Speaker of the House, and described how the issue needs to be “stopped.”
“Well, first of all, I think the whole DOGE committee idea has already paid for itself with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy starting pointing out all the stupid things about this bill.” Rich said.
“The obvious answer is to kill this bill, pass a very short continuing resolution to install a new Republican Senate, and negotiate a new bill by January 20th to cover the rest of the year and get the job done. “That's what we do,” Gingrich said.
Gingrich went on to highlight two issues regarding the dilemma facing Congress, one related to working with Democrats and the other related to the government shutdown. (Related article: The craziest thing that happened was Congress snuck into big Christmas spending)
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“But let me just say two things: It's also going to be, I think, kind of radical for Washington. One, if you negotiate with the Democrats, they're going to do some stupid things in the legislation.” So there's always a huge disadvantage when you let them help write the bill, because everyone on your side thinks the bill is ridiculous,” Gingrich said. Ta.
“Secondly, we shut down the government several times while I was chairman. If we didn't have the courage to step up to the mat and say, 'No, we're not going to do anything stupid,' we wouldn't have had a balanced budget.” could not have been achieved. This was a big shock and a huge shock to Bill Clinton. To the Democratic Party. But the country thought it was a good thing not to do something stupid,” Gingrich added. “So I hope Republicans in the House and Senate take seriously the warnings from President Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Elon Musk.”
After Tuesday's announcement of the bill, Republicans quickly voiced concerns about the 1,574-page continuing resolution (CR), which they hoped would avert a government shutdown. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson withdrew the last-minute bill by Wednesday, but House Minority Leader Steve Scalise also said there was “no new agreement at this time” and the bill would die with no clear path forward. said. According to Go to CBS News.
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