Georgia Congressman Clyde says that Speaker Johnson's leadership is no different than McCarthy's

Key member of the House Appropriations Committee Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., said that House Speaker Mike Johnson's leadership is no different than former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's in regard to the new budget deal. 

"How can we spend money that we don't have?" Clyde said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "This doesn't work for the American people and honestly, I don't see much difference from this than what we saw last year under Kevin McCarthy's leadership. So we got a problem."

The spending agreement that Johnson came up with sets a top line for domestic and military spending through September 2024 at $1.59 trillion, which reflects the parameters of the Financial Responsibility Act. The FRA was the result of a deal McCarthy had reached with President Biden.

Under his successor, Johnson and the House passed a “laddered” CR with a final funding deadline of February 2, 2024. Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, and other House conservatives criticized Johnson’s approach to the temporary spending bill, saying it continues current federal spending and doesn’t reduce the deficit.

"I don't think the American taxpayer saves anything by this deal," Clyde said. "In fact, it looks like it's $70 billion dollars more than what the Financial Responsibility Act, which was signed into law last year, allows. That's just unacceptable." 

Clyde said the federal government needs to get back to fiscal responsibility. 

"I wasn't sent to Congress to spend more money," he said. "I was sent to bring us back into line with the concept of fiscal responsibility. And what I see here in our government spending, it continues to go up and up and up. That's not why we're here."