Key Vote Alert – House & Senate – “NO” on Cramnibus/Craplemental

The Club for Growth urges all Representatives and Senators to vote NO on H.R. 10445, the Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025, aka the Cramnibus/Craplemental. Instead, Congress should pass a straightforward Continuing Resolution to keep the government open through Christmas. The results of this vote will be included in the Club for Growth Foundation’s 2024 congressional scorecard.

At a time when much of America asked for disaster relief following the hurricane season, Congress is instead voting on a legislative disaster. The bill is a Christmas tree omnibus spending package in all but name. In addition to extending already bloated levels of funding that exceed the $1.59 trillion cap enacted by the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the 1,547 page bill includes hundreds of anomalies and numerous unrelated policy items that members will have no time to review, amend, or seriously deliberate. The list of bad policy included in this bill is far too voluminous to be fully listed here, but just small sampling is enough to merit opposition:

• More than $110 billion in un-paid for supplemental funding
• A pay raise for members of Congress at a time when hardworking Americans are still reeling from the effects of President Biden’s inflation
• An exemption from Obamacare for Members of Congress with no corresponding relief for the American people subjected to the higher premiums, deductibles and narrow provider networks resulting from the law
• A one-year extension of the farm bill, including farm subsidies with no reforms to reduce complexity and duplicative efforts
• Expanded authority to implement COVID mandates, including vaccinations and masks
• Locking in spending increases by reducing the current statutory PAYGO Scorecard to zero