Military veterans in the House GOP conference criticized a handful of their conservative colleagues who sank the annual defense appropriations bill on Tuesday, accusing the holdout votes of making the country susceptible to Chinese aggression.
Rep. Mike Garcia hit out against the five House Republicans who voted against beginning consideration of the must-pass legislation, causing the party to fall short of the majority vote needed to kick-start debate on more than 180 amendments lawmakers seek to attach to the funding bill. The failed vote sends GOP leaders back to the drawing board with just seven legislative days left before a government shutdown deadline.
“I think they're good Americans,” Garcia said, referring to the holdout votes. “But they're confused, and they just handed a win to the Chinese Communist Party as a result of this vote.” The House was originally scheduled to vote on the Defense Appropriations Act last Wednesday, but the legislation was later pulled from the schedule due to a lack of support among hard-line conservatives who sought to use their votes as leverage for other legislation.
Other veterans within the GOP conference echoed similar sentiments in a bid to assure their constituents that the handful of members who sank the bill are not representative of the entire conference.
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