Responding to Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie’s protest to the continuing resolution that passed the House on Tuesday, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee Jason Smith, R-Mo., told Newsmax it needed to be passed to follow through on President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Smith told “Rob Schmitt Tonight” that the House needed to vote on a continuing resolution because Republicans and Trump “do not want to shut down government.”
“Because,” Smith added, “that would hamper a lot of the good work that [Trump’s] doing, whether it’s what Elon [Musk] is doing in [the Department of Government Efficiency] or just all the different items within this administration: securing the border, sending illegal criminals back to the countries that they came from, those things would be halted if there was a government shutdown.”
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