(Photo courtesy Facebook/Darin LaHood)
By Eric Stock
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Peoria, said the omnibus spending bill Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed last week was another example of too much government spending.
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“It adds $1.3 trillion to the budget and a lot of that is money we don’t have and we are already $21 trillion in debt, so I have real concerns about that,” LaHood said.
LaHood told WJBC’s Scott Laughlin he voted against the measure because it fully funds Planned Parenthood and sanctuary cities, while leaves little funding for border security.
“Being relatively new here and having gone through five elections in the last 2-and-a-half years, those are things that I ran on, particularly on fiscal conservatism and adding to the debt and I couldn’t justify it on this vote,” LaHood said.
LaHood said he also objected to the way the bill was rushed through Congress. He said Congress had 12 hours to review a 2,500 page bill.
The U.S. Senate passed the spending package early Friday to increase funding for the military and domestic spending and will keep the government funded through the end of September.
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