Conservative Republicans are already shaking their heads at the spending deal reached late Sunday to keep the government open until the end of September, Rep. Jim Jordan said Monday.
“I think you’re going to see a lot of conservatives be against this plan this week,” he said on CBS, adding that he’s “disappointed.”
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Jordan, R-Ohio, said on CNN the bill doesn’t do enough to fulfill the pledges Republicans made to their voters in the fall. He said unified Republican government was supposed to bring more conservative principles into government, and this bill is a failure in that way.
“We did a short-term spending bill so when Republicans controlled the government we could do the kind of things we campaigned on,” Jordan said.
“We make this job too complicated,” he said. “Our job is to do what we told the voters we were going to do.”
Congressional leaders struck a budget deal Sunday to keep the government running through the rest of the fiscal year — Sept. 30. The bill includes some of President Trump’s priorities, including an increase in border security funding and defense spending, but doesn’t spend the amount of money on those priorities that he wanted, and doesn’t include money to start building the border wall he wants.
Jordan, one of the co-founders of the House Freedom Caucus, said many of his fellow conservatives would run away from the bill.
“I’m disappointed, we’ll see how it plays out this week, but I think you’re going to see conservatives have some real concerns with this legislation,” he said.
