Rep. Eric Burlison
Appearances
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
Yeah, a CR is a continuing resolution. In fact, Charlie, we basically have been doing this since whenever we took the majority. We've only been kicking the can down the road. We are continuing the budget that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have passed. We cannot seem to muster the willpower to make the kind of cuts that are necessary.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
Deep down, before society collapsed, we were already falling. Hello. Try to hold your breath. Hold your breath. I saw this. Saw what? Are you scared?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
Is this an ark? Or is this a fortress? It would take a miracle for this to work. But I believe in miracles. That is incredibly powerful.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
And so what happens is we get to the end of the year when our fiscal year ends in September 30th. And in order to avoid a government shutdown, they will pass a continuing resolution. Usually they'll do it until Christmas so that we get to this moment where we all want to go home for Christmas. And then they jam us with an omnibus bill that has a bunch of pork and a bunch of bad things in it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
And that's exactly what we have going on right now. 1500 page, you know, pork barrel piece of garbage. that everybody who votes for it should be ashamed of themselves.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
No, I think that you could do a clean CR and that would accomplish the goal, but that's not what they're trying to do. They're trying to just throw in a bunch of items in this to get Democrats to vote for it. So this is a Democrat heavy bill. We're gonna fund the new Francis Scott Key Bridge. There's an RFK stadium project in here. There's a huge boondoggle for
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
the pharmaceutical companies for big pharma in this. And so honestly, big pharma stands to benefit $50 billion out of this bill. The bill might as well say it's being brought to you by Pfizer.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
No, no. That sounds all of that sounds great. And that's the way it's supposed to work. But that's not what happened. The process is supposed to these bills are supposed to be 12 separate bills or funding bills. and they go through the subcommittees of appropriations and then they are debated and they come to the floor for a vote individually. That does not happen.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
Instead, the speaker holds all the cards and holds all the power. And what the speaker did is over the weekend, we were hearing rumors that this was gonna be an omnibus bill and it's gonna include all of these provisions. And that's the information I got was through rumors. So I texted the speaker, tried to reach out to him. Others did as well, but we didn't know about what was in the bill.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
Nobody other than the speaker's office knew what was in the bill until he came in and kind of gave us a little bit of framework on Tuesday morning. Well, here we are Wednesday, we're probably gonna vote on it today. They dropped the text of the bill last night at six o'clock at night. You cannot tell me people have had enough time to read a 1,500-page bill between last night and tonight.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
You know, sadly, I think that Mike Johnson could do better, and I have a lot of high hopes for him as an individual, and he's an amazing human being, but this is a complete failure. And I don't think that, I think just objectively, this is not something, this is not the way we should be doing things. And I think ultimately it falls on him to step forward and do better.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
Yeah, I think that what he's what's not. Again, we always hear the rhetoric that we're going to do the hard things, you know, in the future. But we've got to do this right now. That is I've heard that every time we come up to a decision or a vote. But. But I will say he didn't have to do this. He did not have to do it onto this bill. This is a, he could have done a clean CR.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
There's no way that Democrats would have turned down a clean CR without having to add all this other pork into it. So I'm just, that's why I think that respectfully, I disagree that this was the only way to get this done.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
So they have not told us when the vote is. The rumors are that it's going to be tonight. But other than that, I don't have the game plan.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
There has not been a vote yet. But the longer this sits, the more the American people are reading it and the more the American people are contacting us. And I think they're losing votes as we speak.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Beating Hollywood's War on Christians
I think that there's time. If this doesn't pass, Congress needs to stick around, do our job. And, you know, if we have to pass a clean CR to get us through to give Trump a clean slate, then so be it. But this is absolutely worse than any kind of continuing resolution. It's just adding a whole lot of pork and more debt to the process. Elon and D-Day to have to unwind.