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HYDE-SMITH VOTES FOR BUDGET BLUEPRINT TO ACHIEVE TRUMP DEFENSE, BORDER & ENERGY AGENDA
Republican Budget Resolution Cuts Wasteful Spending to Pay for Investments in National Defense, Border Security & U.S. Energy Production
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) early Friday morning supported Senate passage of a Republican-led budget resolution that sets the stage to enact President Trump’s agenda to secure U.S. borders, fortify the nation’s military, and undo the previous administration’s attempts to strangle American energy production.
Hyde-Smith voted with Senate Republicans to approve the FY2025 Budget Resolution (S.Con.Res.7), a fiscally-responsible framework that authorizes committees to produce legislation to carry out the three-pronged focus of the resolution: border, defense, and energy.
“This resolution is the first step toward providing us our marching orders to begin making our nation stronger, more secure, and more prosperous,” Hyde-Smith said. “Our plan sets us on a fiscally-responsible path to take commonsense action to give President Trump and Republicans the tools needed to right the course of our great nation.”
“So much of achieving President Trump’s agenda means fixing the monumental and inexcusable mistakes of the previous administration that was dead set on forcing a radical social and environmental agenda on Americans. Sadly, those misguided mistakes left us with a neglected U.S. military, choked-off energy production, and havoc at our borders,” Hyde-Smith added.
“The Senate debate on this resolution clearly demonstrated that Democrats are addicted to big spending, a weakened military, and environmental extremism. The scolding voters gave them last fall seems to be completely lost on them,” she said.
The Senate resolution, passed on a party-line 52-48 vote, would:
- Begin Revitalizing the U.S. Military by making available $150 billion to maintain military readiness, strengthen the naval industrial base to restore maritime dominance, build an integrated air and missile defense, and strengthen the nation’s nuclear defense posture. (The defense budget was effectively cut throughout the entire Biden administration as its budget requests failed to keep up with inflation.)
- Begin Securing the Border by unlocking $175 billion to finish the border wall and meet immediate needs, including detention capacity, ICE officers, Border Patrol agents, immigration judges, assistant U.S. attorneys, and tools to enable state and local law enforcement coordination. (Biden open border policies, for example, resulted in 7.6 million illegal immigrants who can be deported but are not in ICE custody, including 1.4 million already subject to final orders of removal and more than 660,000 aliens with criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.)
- Begin Facilitating U.S. Energy Independence by reestablishing energy production through offshore lease sales, stopping the Biden methane emissions fee (i.e. natural gas tax), and clawing back misguided green energy spending in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. (Biden administration energy policy blunders directly affected current and future energy production in the Gulf of America, nee Gulf of Mexico, and resulted in shocking price increases for energy, gasoline, electricity, and natural gas.)
- Begin the Process of Restoring Fiscal Responsibility by fully paying for the investments in border security, national security and domestic energy production. Investments will be spent in four years and will be paid for in four years, with projected annual spending increasing of $85.5 billion being paid for by a projected $85.5 billion in reduced annual spending.
The Senate-passed FY2025 Budget Resolution is now available to be reconciled with a resolution (H.Con.Res.14) pending in the House of Representatives.
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