🚨 As promised, here’s our breakdown of the massive CR. It funds censorship, includes enormous subsidies for…

🚨 As promised, here’s our breakdown of the massive CR. It funds censorship, includes enormous subsidies for industries who don’t need them, and includes a bunch of woke nonsense – a thread 🧵

This CR is 1,547 pages long and covers a period of 84 days. The last CR on September 26th was 21 pages and lasted 85 days.

The first 14 pages of this CR are the table of contents. The next 9 pages is the actual CR, after that, the remaining 1,524 pages are unrelated to keeping the government open.

The difference between a CR and an omnibus: A CR is supposed to be “Continuing” spending at previously appropriated levels (which were already too high). An omnibus is a combination of the appropriation bills to appropriate funding at new levels for the duration of the fiscal year.

A good way to think of this CR is that it truly is a “CRomnibus” - because there is a 9 page CR and then there is new spending and hundreds of pages of other unrelated provisions.

The CR references the “Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.” This CR is not balancing the budget, it’s waiving requirements in the Act as a way for Congress to avoid sequestration due to our historic deficit.

Division B (Disaster Relief), page 23. There is $100 billion in hurricane disaster relief, which is much-needed, but is not needed to keep the government open and should be a stand alone bill.

Title I Division B, page 25: $3 million dollars for molasses inspections.

Section 21306, page 101: Skirts Statutory PAYGO so the government doesn’t have to pay for programs by offsetting spending elsewhere.

Section 21306, Page 102: Declares our Statutory PAYGO scorecard is zero. Congress does this because if Statutory PAYGO is above zero it triggers sequestration. It’s as if Congress is declaring we have not added a dime to the deficit from direct spending the last 2 years.

Section 205, Page 133: Allow gasoline with up to 15% ethanol to be sold year round. This subsidy for corn farmers is unrelated to keeping the government open.

Section 301, page 139: Funds censorship by extending the Global Engagement Center.

Section 1002, page 938: Exempts Members of Congress from having to enroll in Obamacare.

Section 1202, Page 328: Defines “music tourism.” Not sure what “music tourism” has to do with keeping the government open.

Here’s some woke nonsense in the CR. 👇👇👇

Section 102, Page 947: Redefines “homeless individuals” to “individuals experiencing homelessness.”

Section 102, Page 947: Redefines “homeless children” to “children experiencing homelessness.”

Section 111, Page 958: Redefines “out of school youth” to “opportunity youth.”

Section 111, Page 958: Redefines “low-skilled adults” to “adults with foundational skill needs.”

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.”

There are 553 pages related to healthcare policy and has nothing to do with keeping the government open. These should be standalone bills.

We should not pass over a thousand pages of substantive policy changes in the lame duck, 33 days before President Trump takes the oath of office.

It’s time to go back to following the law in the 1974 Budget and Control Act that requires Congress to pass a budget and fund it via 12 appropriations bills. LFG. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸