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Today, Congressman French Hill released the following statement after voting against H.R. 1314, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015:

“Although I am grateful that our national security funding is better assured—and for two full years—and I am delighted with structural reforms to the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program—the first significant reforms to Social Security since 1983—I could not support the Bipartisan Budget Act, which raises the sequester caps and allows for an estimated $1.5 trillion increase in our national debt.

“I have long supported the sequester caps and supported reallocation of spending under these caps. This proposal does not honor that principle and will increase the financial burden on future generations of Americans. These sorts of ‘budget deals’ make a mockery of the thousands of hours devoted to regular appropriations under an agreed upon budget resolution. Congress is in this position now because Democrats in the Senate have stymied regular appropriations in a timely way and the President’s insistence on more deficit spending for his domestic agenda. The good news with the passing of a budget deal is that it will be the last budget impasse precipitated by President Obama.

“Although the budget deal has passed and will likely be signed into law, I remain dedicated to eliminating wasteful government spending while providing essential funding for critical requirements, such as national security. I fully expect Speaker-Designate Paul Ryan to lead in exercising Congress’s ‘power of the purse’ by insisting on a full and transparent appropriations process.”