Congressman Eliot L. Engel, a top member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement on the House’s passage of a new continuing resolution:
“This is the fourth short-term spending bill this fiscal year. Despite controlling the House, the Senate, and the White House, Republicans have been unable to adequately fund the government.
“This new continuing resolution (CR) ignores funding for veterans’ health care, the opioid crisis and disaster aid. It provides for CHIP, but by failing to fund Community Health Centers it doesn’t provide a place for many of these children to get the medical attention they need. And by ignoring DACA, this CR continues to leave our DREAMers, who are still facing a March deadline, with uncertainty and fear. The fact is this CR represents a failure to address many of the most pressing issues facing our nation.
“The Republicans squandered months of time working on a disastrous tax bill that hurts the middle-class and New York, while rewarding big corporations and the top one percent. That’s time that could have been much better spent.
“Working month to month is not the way to run the government. And ignoring the needs of Americans is not the American way.”
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