A Republican Congressman revealed his breaking point…
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said he is willing to break with the narrow Republican majority in the House on some legislation if it crosses his morals.
“If it’s morally correct, if it’s something that I really believe in. If it’s, you know, if we continue down this path of economic destruction, spending our great-grandchildren’s money, yes, I will, and I have,” Burchett said Wednesday in an interview on CNN This Morning.
“And we’ll continue on that path until we regain some sanity,” he told host Kasie Hunt.
The Tennessee Republican urged his colleagues in the lower chamber to resort to passing single-issue spending legislation to assist in cutting down the national debt.
“If we could just do like we do in Tennessee, single issue spending bills,” he said.
“It’s a great way if you’re in power, Democrat or Republican, you drop a 3,000-page spending bill on your desk two hours before, and all you do is read down, ‘oh, there’s page 25, there’s all the stuff I need, or there’s the lobbyist I need degrees or what have you,’ and then they vote for it,” Burchett added. “And that’s why we’re $36 trillion in debt.”
Republicans’ small majority in the house became even slimmer this week after the race for California’s 13th Congressional District was called for Democrat Adam Gray over incumbent GOP Rep. John Duarte. (RELATED: Final House Race Called Weeks After Election Day, Republicans Officially Secure House Majority)
President-elect Trump also nominated two sitting House members to key administration posts. He tapped Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations, and Rep. Mike Walz (R-Fla.) as national security adviser.
The move leaves the GOP with just 220 seats compared to Democrats’ 215.
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