Victoria Spartz mulls resigning from Congress: 'I cannot save this Republic alone'

Indiana Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz on Monday announced she would consider resigning from Congress if the legislature does not soon create a commission to address the mounting national debt.

"I've done many very difficult things being one woman standing many times with many very long hours and personal sacrifices, but there is a limitation to human capacity," she said in a statement. "If Congress does not pass a debt commission this year to move the needle on the crushing national debt and inflation, at least at the next debt ceiling increase at the end of 2024, I will not continue sacrificing my children for this circus with a complete absence of leadership, vision, and spine. I cannot save this Republic alone."

Her announcement follows the lower chamber approving a stopgap funding measure to avert a government shutdown. That development followed weeks of intense budget negotiations, with House conservatives thwarting several Republican bills in a bid to secure deeper spending cuts and block additional aid to Ukraine.

Spartz had previously announced she would not seek reelection in 2024, but appeared to reconsider that decision amid frustrations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Republican leadership's perceived unwillingness to address runaway spending.

Facing the prospect of a government shutdown, Spartz in late September, excoriated the California Republican over his "lack of leadership" and suggested he was seeking to bolster his own career rather than seriously address the nation's problems.

"The Republican House is failing the American people again and pursuing a path of gamesmanship and circus. Neither Republicans nor Democrats have the backbone to challenge the corrupt swamp that is bankrupting our children and grandchildren," she said at the time. "It is a shame that our weak Speaker cannot even commit to having a commission to discuss our looming fiscal catastrophe."

"Our founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves to see how this institution is betraying our Republican for personal political ambitions and our children will be ashamed of another worthless Congress," she added.

Earlier this year, Spartz was one of a handful of lawmakers who opposed McCarthy's rise to the speakership, though she ultimately voted for him in the 12th round.

Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter.