SEAN HANNITY: Continuing resolution is a 'total and utter disaster'

Fox News host Sean Hannity calls out House Republicans for the stopgap funding bill that was released in an effort to avert a government shutdown in his opening monologue Wednesday on “Hannity “. As of Wednesday, the U.S. national debt — which is a measure of how much U.S. taxpayers owe the country's creditors — had surpassed $36 trillion and showed no signs of slowing, with a projected deficit of $2 trillion. for 2025.

SEAN HANNITÉ: Tonight, it looks like Donald Trump will face another Biden-era disaster when he takes office in January. This could involve a government shutdown.

Now, this resolution is currently continuing in Congress, it is a total and utter disaster. It is difficult to imagine, after this election, that these elected officials think that the government, as usual – the swamp as usual – will continue. This is not the case. This would finance the government until March, but at what cost? Raise the debt ceiling. At what price? Why should Donald Trump have to raise the debt ceiling when that's Joe Biden's problem?

However, this bill is more than 1,500 pages long. He's spending lavishly on pet projects — let's say, a new bridge in Baltimore, plus another $100 billion for vague disaster relief programs and another $10 billion in farm subsidies. The resolution also extends the federal bureaucracy, funding a new Office of Telecommunications Spectrum Management and a new National Advisory Committee on Blockchain Deployment.

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The spending bill also gives the state of Maryland a group of National Guard fighter jets. It also transfers ownership of RFK Stadium from the federal government to Washington, DC. Why are we giving them our stadium? In other words, you paid for it, an extremely valuable asset belonging to American taxpayers. What, given to the far left D.C. swamp dwellers?

Now, for some reason, this bill also makes imports of clothing and textiles from Haiti duty-free, but bans lithium batteries from other countries. Explain that one. The icing on the cake all this resolution continues is a pay raise for members of Congress. That's correct. I think they worked 138 days, if my calculation is correct, a pay increase that few people deserve. And for more than a decade, lawmakers have worked an average of about 140 days a year. That's all they work for. It's a part-time job.

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And unfortunately, overall, their work is unacceptable. Our budget is out of control. The bureaucratic state is a nightmare. The executive power is rarely held in check. As I said, it is time to return to constitutional order.