Moulton Statement on Continuing Resolution Vote

Congressman Seth Moulton made the following statement after voting against a Republican Continuing Resolution in the House this evening. 

"Tonight, the Republican-led House took one step closer to shutting down the government by refusing to bring a bipartisan funding bill to the floor—while also being unable to even get their fellow Republicans in line to vote for their own hyper-partisan bill. I was one of many bipartisan votes against it because I’m not going to let Elon Musk run our government into the ground, nor am I going to reward Republicans for following him like sheep off a cliff.

Instead of allowing the House to vote on a compromise measure, Musk tweeted 70 times in 12 hours against a bill that he knew nothing about; Trump changed his mind to follow Elon; and that’s all it took for chaos to ensue.

Musk may be new to politics, but Trump and the Speaker are not. Legislating by tweet doesn’t work well. Republicans have the majority, so they should work with Democrats in good faith to put the country first."