Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025

Floor Speech

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Mr. ALFORD. Mr. Speaker, I did not bring any fancy signs with me today. Those take hours to prepare.

I will tell you, Mr. Speaker, that if a shutdown occurs because we do not pass this continuing resolution today, it will not be a Republican shutdown. It will be a Democrat shutdown.

When it goes over to the Senate, it will be the Schumer shutdown.

Mr. Speaker, this is not about millionaires. This is not about billionaires. This is about our farmers. This is about our military getting the pay that they deserve through Christmas and the New Year. This is about the future of this Nation.

Mr. Speaker, this continuing resolution before us is not a perfect solution, but it is a bridge that will allow us to continue the critical work of funding our troops, securing our borders, supporting our farmers, caring for our veterans, and procuring disaster relief for those in the Carolinas who we visited just last month. They are living in tents in freezing temperatures while illegal aliens are living at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

Mr. Speaker, Missouri has 87,000 farms. We are losing 1,000 farms in America each month. Our food security is national security, and the Democrats do not want to support our farmers. Due to the high inflationary costs that this administration has brought about and low commodity prices, farmers are going out of business.

I don't understand this consolidation of farming in America and why the Democrats are in favor of that. We have to support our farmers through this bill. We have to support our disaster victims through this bill. Most of all, we must support America.

We are not here for ourselves. We are here for those who we represent, the hardworking Americans who depend on us to set aside our differences and act with courage and responsibility. They deserve a government that works for them and not against them.

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