{"id":14843,"date":"2024-03-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=14843"},"modified":"2024-09-23T23:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T05:23:44","slug":"congressman-russ-fulchers-statement-on-the-spending-package-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/congressman-russ-fulchers-statement-on-the-spending-package-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Russ Fulcher&#8217;s Statement on The Spending Package Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: <\/strong>Friday, March 22<br><strong>CONTACT: <\/strong>Marisa Melton, (208) 743 &#8211; 1388, <a href=\"mailto:marisa.melton@mail.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marisa.melton@mail.house.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON D.C. &#8211; <\/strong>U.S. Congressman Russ Fulcher released the following statement today regarding his vote against the spending package.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c32 hours before the vote, a 1,012-page package of spending bills was released for first-time review:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total is $1.2 trillion, but the American border remains open. In this bill, taxpayer dollars are appropriated to expand FBI facilities, support transgender treatments within the DOD, and fund facilities that provide late-term abortion. There\u2019s even some money for the World<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Organization and the Wuhan lab\u2026 but there\u2019s nothing in the bill to curb inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are $34 trillion in debt. We need to cut wasteful spending and encourage economic growth. This bill does the opposite. I voted no.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, March 22CONTACT: Marisa Melton, (208) 743 &#8211; 1388, marisa.melton@mail.house.gov WASHINGTON D.C. &#8211; U.S. Congressman Russ Fulcher released the following statement today regarding his vote against the spending package.\u00a0 \u201c32 hours before the vote, a 1,012-page package of spending bills was released for first-time review: The total is $1.2 trillion, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[285,1264,824,42],"class_list":["post-14843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-congress","tag-government-spending","tag-press-release","tag-russ-fulcher","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14844,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14843\/revisions\/14844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}