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With a potential government shutdown on the horizon, House Republicans torched Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for delivering a “dumpster fire” of a budget bill.

Johnson noted the “bipartisan work” in crafting the continuing resolution.

“We’re almost there…We’ve been working around the clock to get the CR done. It was intended to be and it was until recent days a very simple a very clean CR…but a couple intervening things have occurred,” he said earlier Tuesday. “We do expect text today.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called out the “same pattern of behavior” she has previously criticized Johnson about as she spoke with reporters Tuesday.

“This CR is turning into a three-month omnibus, that will result in more Democrats than Republicans voting for it,” the Georgia Republican spelled out in a social media post about the continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown.

“The Swamp is using farmers and victims of natural disasters as pawns to fund an over-bloated pet project-filled disaster,” the longtime critic of the speaker added.

“I would much rather help farmers and victims of natural disasters than continue a budget I already voted against, funding foreign governments and foreign wars. Why are farmers and victims of natural disasters always political pawns in an effort to continue funding bloated government?” Greene asked.

“But it’s the same old Uniparty BS, dangling important programs around as bargaining chips to fuel more government waste and adding to our deficit,” she contended.

“It’s a total dumpster fire. I think it’s garbage,” Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) said.

“This is what Washington, D.C. has done. This is why I ran for Congress to try to stop this, and sadly, this is happening again,” he added.

“I think that it’s shameful that people that celebrate DOGE coming in. I can’t-, and yet we’re going to vote for another billion dollars to be added to the deficit? And so it’s ironic,” Burlison said.

CNN reported that the lawmaker “wouldn’t commit to backing Speaker Johnson in Jan and said he is ‘extremely frustrated’ with him over his handling of gov funding.”

“Swamp’s gonna swamp, right? 1,400 pages, still haven’t seen the text,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) told reporters.

“This is not the way to do business, right?” he said, adding that “the conference itself owns this” and “needs to decide whether we’re actually serious about spending.”

“We’re just fundamentally unserious about spending. And as long as you got a blank check, you can’t shrink government. If you can’t shrink government, you can’t live free,” he concluded.

Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs reacted in a post on X saying, “The Swamp is deep and must be drained.”

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) joined his GOP colleagues in venting their frustration with Johnson.

“We’re evidently going to take a 1,800-page document that we really haven’t read and going to pass it, add more debt. Very frustrating. It’s the opposite of what the DOGE commission is trying to do. So am I voting for it? No, I’m not,” he told reporters.

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