Utah Sen. Mike Lee told Fox News there's
on Sunday that Congress can still continue to do its work during a potential shutdown and that includes investigating the president.
"Those allegations are very troubling and they need to be investigated. And I applaud Speaker McCarthy for launching this inquiry," Lee said. "I am aware of no reason, Maria, why that inquiry could not continue even if the government were to shut down temporarily. There's nothing suggesting to me that Congress can't do its work if that happens. In any event, we shouldn't use that as an excuse unilaterally to disarm and to just accede to whatever the Democrats want.
Lee also criticized the approach long taken by congressional leadership to pass an "omnibus" spending bill each year and said Congress should consider different spending bills "one by one." He accused House and Senate leaders of "waiting until the last minute" and bringing the omnibus spending bill up for a vote "at the worst possible moment."
"Sometimes they like to extend the deadline up until close to Christmas, and then they use Christmas extortion to get people to vote for it, not wanting to cause a shutdown and be delayed for getting home to their families just before Christmas," he said. "This has got to stop, and the best way to stop that is by doing these appropriations bills one by one. Fund one part of government after the other one at a time until it's all done.
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