Blumenthal to Vote "No" on Republican Spending Bill

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) released the following statement today on the proposed Republican House spending bill:

“I will vote “no” on the Republican funding measure. The Republican House bill slashes billions from community budgets for police officers, firefighters, and teachers and critical federal investments in the NIH’s cancer and Alzheimer’s research. It cedes unwarranted, broad, unbridled discretion to President Trump, creating in effect a personal slush fund. Republicans decided to barrel forward with this reprehensible and reckless bill without making any effort at bipartisan legislating. The only opportunity I have to participate in this process is how I choose to vote, and I cannot support a measure that would devastate our state. Congress should pass a short-term clean CR and then negotiate a bipartisan, long-term spending bill that gives our communities what they really need.”

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