Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) had a long list of complaints about “woke nonsense” stuffed inside a proposed spending bill to keep the government funded that died on Wednesday night.
The ill-fated stopgap had several provisions, alongside continued funding of the government through mid-March that attracted loud criticism from Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump, and tanked its support among Republicans. Mace issued a lengthy thread on X explaining provisions she took issue with in the legislation, which she said was more of a combination of a continuing resolution and omnibus — a “CRomnibus.”
“The difference between a CR and an omnibus: A CR is supposed to be ‘Continuing’ spending at previously appropriated levels (which were already too high),” she wrote. “An omnibus is a combination of the appropriation bills to appropriate funding at new levels for the duration of the fiscal year.”
“A good way to think of this CR is that it truly is a ‘CRomnibus’ — because there is a 9 page CR and then there is new spending and hundreds of pages of other unrelated provisions,” she added.
Mace took issue with provisions unrelated to keeping the government open, including parts about “music tourism,” exempting members of Congress from Obamacare, and funding the Global Engagement Center — which has been accused of being an unconstitutional “censorship scheme.”
The opt-out of using Obamacare has long been a request from some lawmakers after the Affordable Care Act mandated members of Congress and some staff use it, and the continuing resolution would allow members to use the Federal Employees Health Benefits program instead.
