Democratic Congressional Campaign Chairman Ben Ray Luján released the following statement on the passage of the government funding bill:
“House Republicans just can’t help themselves. Once again, they took the country to the brink of catastrophe to stack the deck for special interests, continuing the same governing-by-crisis strategy that led to their last disastrous shutdown. House Republicans continue to place special interests and the most extreme right-wing elements of their party ahead of the middle class while using crises as leverage. Speaker Boehner and House Republicans keep risking our economic well-being to protect their special interest handouts, and it is the American people who continue to pay the price.”