Continuing Resolution: Charlie Kirk on Congress's Spending Fights

Showing 9 Continuing Resolution videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

The continuing resolution process in Congress drew sharp criticism from Charlie Kirk as a symbol of dysfunction within his own party's majority. He described a December spending bill as a disappointment stuffed with unrelated provisions, including Ukrainian biolab funding, and used the moment to press Republicans to hold firm on border security and spending cuts rather than accept compromise packages negotiated without rank-and-file input. Congressman Byron Donalds offered a similar account from inside Congress, explaining that members frequently learn what is in these bills from lobbyists and media coverage before their own leadership tells them, and arguing that this pattern reflects leadership's fear of losing power rather than genuine legislative strategy. Senator Rick Scott, in a separate conversation with Kirk, connected repeated continuing resolutions to a broader pattern of unchecked federal spending, citing a 53 percent increase in spending over five years against only 2 percent population growth as evidence of the scale of the problem. Kirk also covered the political fallout for House Speaker Mike Johnson, whose narrow majority and a threatened defection from Representative Thomas Massie left his position precarious even as Kirk argued Trump's endorsement made replacing him practically impossible.