Hoyer Blasts GOP's One-Week CR Extension On House Floor

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) blasted Republicans’ one-week extension to the continuing resolution that would fund the government for another week, saying the bill was “unclean.”

“I said I would not support, after supporting the first two, which I thought were reasonable to try to give us an opportunity to solve the differences that exist between us, that I would not vote for a third one. And I’m not going to vote for this one,” Hoyer said in a speech on the House floor. “It won’t matter because it’s dead anyway, you all know it’s dead.”

Hoyer criticized Republicans for introducing a bill that they know would not be supported by the Senate nor the President.

“So now we are faced with not a “let’s reason together” bill, but an additional $12 billion in cuts, which means that week by week by week, you’ll think you will get to what you want. Not a compromise, not an agreement, but what you want. And you’ll do it $5 billion a week, $2 billion a week, this one is $12 billion a week,” Hoyer said. “And you have no expectation that that will pass or be signed by the President. But you do it to pretend you want to keep government in operation.”