Massie Slams Trump-Backed Funding Bill: ‘I’d Have to Get a Lobotomy to Vote Yes’

Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has announced that, as the deadline for averting a government shutdown nears and Donald Trump is urging Republicans to pass a funding proposal, he intends to oppose it.

If I don’t get a lobotomy on Monday, which will make me forget everything I have seen in the last 12 years, I won’t vote NO this week. I am amazed that many people, including my colleagues on X and the general public, believe that we can fight another day.

President Donald Trump urged Republicans on the issue.

The House and Senate, in the current circumstances, have put together a good funding bill (“CR”). Please vote for all Republicans! “YES, next week!” the president wrote in a Truth Social Saturday post.

“Great things are coming for America, and I am asking you all to give us a few months to get us through to September so we can continue to put the Country’s ‘financial house’ in order. Democrats will do anything they can to shut down our Government, and we can’t let that happen. We have to remain UNITED — NO DISSENT — Fight for another day when the timing is right. VERY IMPORTANT. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

The funding measure is supported by House Freedom Caucus Chair Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland.

Congress must maintain the government’s openness so that DOGE continues to eradicate waste, fraud, and abuse within our government. The President’s Agenda can only be advanced by this continuing resolution. “I fully support it”, Harris said in a Twitter post.

DOGE, a Trump Administration initiative, aims at uncovering government fraud and waste that could be cut from federal budgets.

Why would I vote for the continuation of waste, fraud, and abuse as DOGE found? The CR was supposed to get us through December so we could fight in March. We are now in March and punting yet again. “WTFO”, Massie said in a tweet.

In a press release from the House Appropriations Committee, the committee states that the measure “ensures a costly shutdown of the government is not falling the American people,” it “increases the funding for air-traffic control over the FY24 period” and increases defense investment.

The bill provides full funding for the nutrition program, which is vital to children, mothers, and infants. The bill includes an increase of more than $500M for WIC as requested by the Trump Administration for a $7.6B total, according to the press release.