Sixth District Wisconsin Congressman Glenn Grothman voted against the government funding bill in Washington. The Republican representative from Glenbeulah issued a statement last night saying, “Due to the short amount of time we had to read the bill, it would be impossible to know all of the provisions within it. New, bad provisions seem to be uncovered every hour. I can confidently say, knowing what I already do, I cannot in good conscience, vote for such a bill. I am aware that this (bill) is a compromise and I can’t expect all I want, but this is ridiculous.” Grothman continued, “While most public attention will focus on immigration provisions, that is actually a small section of the bill. One of my main concerns is that this measure (bill) spends too much money. America just exceeded $22 trillion dollars in debt and we are borrowing about 22% of our budget. President Trump tried to bring some fiscal discipline to Congress, but they decided to spend 19% more than what the President proposed in this bill and overall 2-percent more than last year.”
