House GOP Leaders Completely Ignore Insane Debt Crisis In Major Funding Bill

House Republican leadership on Wednesday did not include budget cuts in a third budget reconciliation package as the U.S. national debt nears $40 trillion.

The reconciliation package would cost $95 billion, including $10 billion for the House Administration Committee to hand out grants to implement the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, $72 billion for the House Armed Services Committee and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to address the Iran war and $12 billion to aid struggling farmers. It included no spending offsets, which would not address the $1.4 trillion deficit.

Many conservatives expressed concern about the package’s cost.

“$95 billion in new deficit spending, no offsets, and not one provision to lower the cost of living. American families are feeling the pain of rising costs. Their American dream is getting further out of reach. We must take their concerns seriously or our party will suffer the consequences,” Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace said.

Republican Sens. Rick Scott of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky argued Congress needed to prioritize lowering the deficit.

“On any reconciliation, we ought to, one, pay for it; two, see how we can reduce the deficit,” Scott said.

“I’m for less spending, not more. I think the debt is too big. I think the more we spend the bigger our debt gets. Less spending not more,” Paul said.

A House leadership aide claimed the only other option was working on a package with Democrats who would have wanted an even more expensive piece of legislation.

“It’s not necessarily a choice between this and nothing. It’s a choice between this and, you know, theoretically an even larger un-offset spending package, but that said, I think all our members, even our biggest fiscal hawks, recognize the importance of providing this funding,” the leadership aide said.