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‘We Did Not Authorize This’: Chip Roy Furious After Details Emerge of $1.2T Spending Bill
By Jennifer Bowers Bahney,
2024-03-23
Some House Republicans were steaming mad after learning about at least one of the provisions in the $1.2 trillion spending bill that was signed into law by President Joe Biden late last night.
House Speaker Mike Johnson came under fire from right-wing Republicans for working with Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer (R-NY) to get the bill passed Friday and avert a government shutdown.
In order to move quickly, Johnson waived the usual 72-hour rule that allows members time to read through the sometimes thousands of pages of an omnibus bill before voting on it. At the end, the bill passed the House with 112 Republicans and 22 Democrats voting against it. It then went on to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate and was signed into law.
MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was so spitting mad that she filed a motion to vacate Johnson’s speakership as a “warning” but didn’t fully put it into play.
The morning after the spending bill became law, the Department of Justice announced a new “National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center” that sent some far-right Republicans into a meltdown.
Republican Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) posted to X (formerly Twitter) claiming, “We did not authorize this. And yes, an omnibus with $200 million in it for a new FBI headquarters I might add.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) called the “Resource Center” a “Federal Red Flag center,” tweeting, “What the hell is this evil? A Federal Red Flag center; We did not authorize this. Announced, of course, just hours after the omnibus passes.”
Greene also referred to to the center as “a massive Red Flag Operation” put in place to “violate” Americans’ rights.
Conservatives have accused the DOJ of being “weaponized” against Republicans and presumed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Congress will be in recess for Easter break until April, so any political fallout from the new law will be on hold until then.
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