House Republican leaders condemned on Wednesday the failure of Democrats who controlled both chambers of Congress and the White House for waiting until the last minute before Christmas to “jam” through an omnibus spending bill that nobody will be able to read before voting on it.
“The Democrats have been in power, they have had the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, but they did not do their work and they should not jam us now,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters.
“They should not jam the American public. We cannot afford it,” said McCarthy, who told reporters the federal budget deficit was the largest in history for the first two months of the current fiscal year, at $248 billion….