According to Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, he states, “The president asked for $2.5 billion. I would have supported that.”

However, Buck continued, “speaker [Pelosi] decided to add all sorts of Christmas-tree ornaments to this bill. It was unnecessary. It was too much money.”

“In true Washington, D.C. fashion, congressional appropriators turned the president’s reasonable $2.5 billion request into a bloated $8.3 billion package,” he said.

“I work on Capitol Hill and I see politics every day,” Buck said. “And unfortunately, I see people that try to make political gain out of things that they should not try to make political gain out of.

“And to try to lay this issue, which starts in China, comes the United States and is being handled as well as we could possibly hope — to try to lay this at the president’s feet as unfair,” he said.

“And I think most people have seen three years of unfair treatment by the Democrats of this president.”

“By passing this larded-up bill, Congress again fails to wisely appropriate taxpayer dollars. I would have supported the president’s request for $2.5 billion, knowing that, if we spent all the funds, Congress could have provided additional funding.”

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