Issa Statement on Last-Minute and Hastily Assembled Pelosi-led Government Spending Bill

"The Pelosi-led Congress has dedicated 2021 to the most partisan agenda in memory, and this last-minute, hastily assembled government funding band-aid did little to change that trajectory. This is a continuation of the year’s squandered opportunities to address the many crises brought on by the Biden Administration.
 
"Specifically, this resolution added billions in funding for Afghan refugee resettlement in this country and around the world – but did nothing to hold this Administration accountable for its deadly withdrawal, continuing failure to evacuate Americans still trapped, and ongoing absence of suitable vetting for unverified refugees. Blank check funding without course correction is at once a terrible insult to the hundreds of American citizens abandoned and an enduring national security problem that this White House wants to turn the page and forget about.
 
"In addition, this resolution declined to provide my colleagues on both side of the aisle an opportunity to vote to defund this Administration’s inappropriate and unconstitutional vaccine mandates. This would have provided an important opportunity for the Congress to lend its voice to one of the most important and unresolved questions in the country and for which millions of our fellow Americans need immediate resolution."

Darrell Issa is the Representative of California’s 50th Congressional District. The District encompasses the central and northeastern parts of San Diego County and a portion of Riverside County, including the communities of Fallbrook, San Marcos, Valley Center, Ramona, Escondido, Santee, Lakeside, El Cajon, Temecula, and the mountain and desert areas of the San Diego-Imperial County line. Issa served as the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from 2011-2015.

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