Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley criticized the republicans controlled House of Representatives on Tuesday for returning from a five-week summer recess only to pass a short-term funding bill, narrowly averting a government shutdown ahead of the November midterms.
President Donald Trump has since signed the bill into law.
‘It’s The American People… Who Suffer’
“This is exactly why our country is in such a fiscal mess,” she said in a post on X, warning that the long-term cost of falls hardest on “the American people and especially our younger generations.”
U.S. national debt crossed $40 trillion last month, a milestone that arrived just as long-term Treasury yields climbed to their highest levels in more than two decades, adding to the mounting cost of financing America’s growing pile of borrowing.
Republicans Celebrate Averting Another Shutdown
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the bill “will prevent a harmful government shutdown.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Republicans “did our job weeks before the deadline,” while Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) said the bill keeps troops paid and airports running, though he’d prefer full-year spending bills “in the lame-duck session, when political temperatures cool.”
‘More money for ICE’
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said the bill gives “MORE money to ICE,” warning, “we cannot give another dime to this rogue agency that continues to terrorize our communities.”
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) said Republicans voted yes “so they can go back home and beg for votes ahead of the elections,” while Democrats who supported it “deem it good enough.”
Government Funded Through Dec. 11
Trump signed the bill funding federal agencies through Dec. 11 and extending authorities for programs including surface transportation and veterans services.
The House passed the measure 370-48, following Senate passage on Aug. 8.
Since the start of Trump’s second term, fights between Republicans and Democrats over health insurance subsidies and immigration enforcement checks have triggered three partial shutdowns totaling 161 days, the longest stretch in U.S. history.
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