Sen. Mike Lee News Conference on Federal Spending Deal

U.S. Senate Republican members (press event) · March 6, 2024

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Opening: national debt and earmarks introduced

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Unidentified Speaker (first speaker) opened the event by framing the conversation around soaring federal debt (cited as roughly $34–35 trillion) and introduced earmarks as a focal problem, saying the country no longer 'do[es] budgets' and calling for balanced-budget and term-limit fixes.

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Senate Republican lawmakers criticized the fiscal 2025 omnibus appropriations package and its use of earmarks, calling the rushed process undemocratic and warning it could affect GOP leadership choices. Speakers highlighted numbers for national debt, the count and cost of earmarks, and proposed procedural reforms.

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