Ted Deutch (FL-22) issued the following statement after voting against the House Republican spending bill, a short-term stop-gap measure that funds the government only until January 19, 2018: |
“I cannot support a spending bill that kicks the can down the road while Republican leaders refuse to address important bipartisan priorities. Republican delay tactics are putting millions of Americans at risk.
"Before leaving Washington, we should have acted to provide long-term stability to the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). We should have voted on the DREAM Act before the end of the year to provide a permanent legislative solution to the 800,000 DREAMers who are our friends and neighbors. We should have urgently provided the resources necessary to stop the tragic loss of life from the opioid epidemic; a crisis that claimed 63,000 lives in 2016 and continues to devastate South Florida and communities around the nation. We should have adequately provided recovery assistance that is still desperately needed in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The American people deserve more from their Congress.
“To govern is to compromise for the sake of the greater good of our nation. This stop-gap funding bill ignores the priorities of the American people. While I voted against this empty, short-term bill, I hope that my Republican colleagues enter the New Year determined to work with Democrats to find bipartisan solutions to the significant challenges ahead.”
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