Gohmert: Leadership Wouldn’t Work With Conservatives on Cromnibus

Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that conservatives in the House heard “not one word” from House GOP leadership on compromises to make changes to the cromnibus in order to get conservatives to vote for it even though “we were willing to work with them to compromise” on Thursday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.

“There was no encouragement to conservatives. The Speaker and Majority Leader, these folks knew there’s money for abortion, money for the EPA to hurt states like Texas, Arizona. There’s just all kinds of money in there for things we don’t support. and, Sean, you and I know some of us had gone to our leadership and said, ‘look, we can do this very easily. Let’s do it together with conservatives. That’s the bulk of our conference, don’t make them take a wrong vote. Let’s fund everything for two months. Let us have a vote on defunding Obama’s amnesty, and we’ll even agree that the Senate can take it out if they take the hard vote to do that and let it go from there to the president.’ We were willing to work with them to compromise, and not one word, as you know, the calls went to the white house when in a time that the speaker needed votes he turned to somebody that he really identifies with, the president and liberal Democrats and got them to help him pass this vote” he stated.

Representative Matt Salmon (R-AZ) expressed disappointment that House Republicans didn’t even try to get the Senate to vote on defunding the president’s executive action on immigration, saying “I said if we would send it to the Senate and then let it then work there will, we may be surprised, there may be a lot of Democrats over there feeling a lot of pain and heat from the election, that they’ll do the right thing. But we’ll never know. You never know if you always punt the ball.”

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