Fox News host Sean Hannity is calling out House Republicans on the funding bill passed in an effort to avert a government shutdown in his opening session Wednesday on “Hannity.” As of Wednesday, America's national debt – a measure of what US taxpayers were able to owe to the nation's creditors – had surpassed $36 trillion, and showed no signs of abating, with a $2 trillion deficit expected by 2025.
SEAN HANNITY: Tonight, it looks like Donald Trump will face yet another Biden-era disaster when he takes office in January. This may include a government shutdown.
Now, that resolution that is going on now in Congress, is a complete, unmitigated disaster. It is difficult to understand after this election that these elected officials, think that the government, as usual – swamp as usual – will continue. That's not the case. This will fund the government until March, but at what cost? Raise the credit limit. At what cost? Why should Donald Trump raise the debt ceiling if it's Joe Biden's problem?
Now, this bill has more than 1,500 pages. It's spending a lot of money on pet programs – let's see, a new bridge in Baltimore and another $100 billion in vague disaster relief programs and another $10 billion in farm subsidies. The solution is increasing again federal bureaucracy, is funding a new Office of Telecommunications Spectrum Management and a National Blockchain Deployment Advisory Committee.
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The spending bill also provides the state of Maryland with a fleet of National Guard fighter jets. It also transfers ownership of RFK Stadium from the federal government to Washington, DC Why are we giving them our stadium? In other words, you paid for it, the most valuable asset of the American taxpayer. What, given far-left DC swamp dwellers?
Now, for some reason, this bill also makes clothes, fabrics from Haiti free, but prohibits lithium batteries from other countries. Explain that one. The cherry on top all this ongoing decision raising the salaries of members of Congress. That's right. I think they worked 138 days, if my count is correct, a pay rise that few really deserve. And for more than a decade, lawmakers worked an average of about 140 days a year. That's all they do. It's part-time.
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And sadly, as a whole, their work was unacceptable. Our budget is out of control. A bureaucratic regime is a nightmare. The executive branch is rarely subject to scrutiny. As I've been saying, it's time to get back to constitutional drafting.
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