Catherine Templeton is once Again Confused; Misleading Voters on Massive, Big Government Spending Bill

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CATHERINE TEMPLETON IS ONCE AGAIN CONFUSED; MISLEADING VOTERS ON MASSIVE, BIG GOVERNMENT SPENDING BILL

April 18, 2024 – CHARLESTON, S.C. – Nancy Mace’s campaign called out Catherine Templeton’s misleading claims that Congresswoman Mace is against border security, when nothing could be further from the truth.

Templeton’s claims today are intentionally misleading voters by stating Mace does not support border security because she voted against a continuing resolution. The reality is Mace voted multiple times to secure the border both in HR 2 and the fiscally responsible Homeland Security Appropriations bills last year. Mace also voted to impeach Secretary Mayorkas and has also introduced measures to immediately deport illegal immigrants who rape and assault women.

“What is often the case, because Congress is run by the DC establishment, is that both parties force all or nothing, thousands of pages spending bills, also known as omnibuses or continuing resolutions, that bust all debt ceiling limits and that most fiscal conservatives vote against,” said Mace spokeswoman Gabrielle Lipsky. “Templeton is just another puppet for the establishment, who will vote for every massive spending bill they tell her to.”

Lipsky added, “The 1974 Budget and Control Act requires Congress to create a budget and separately pass 12 separate appropriations bills to fund the government. We’d encourage Templeton to read it, and learn US law before commenting on spending vehicles that take our children and grandchildren further into debt to the tune of $1 trillion dollars every 100 days.”

Templeton’s career as a Columbia bureaucrat can be defined by her record, where she fired 85 percent of South Carolina’s immigration enforcement agents during her time at the SC LLR, and now apologizes for calling immigrants invading our southern border “illegal aliens,” much like Joe Biden did and within 24 hours of each other.

Mace on the other hand is known as a “fiscal hawk” guarding tax payer dollars. She’s earned accolades for never voting to raise taxes and supporting fiscally conservative appropriations. Just this week during the foreign aid debate she put 11 amendments forward, many of which address common sense fiscally responsible spending provisions such as:

An amendment to offset Ukraine aid by rescinding IRS funding from the Inflation Reduction Act
An amendment to strike the provision that allows the President to forgive Ukraine’s debt to the U.S.
An amendment to ensure no funds from the Ukraine bill may be used to deploy members of the armed forces to Ukraine (except to secure our embassy)
An amendment to ensure no funds from the Ukraine bill may be spent until the southern border is secure
An amendment to strike bilateral economic assistance to Ukraine from the bill, including provisions for budgetary support (we should not support another nation’s budget when we are adding $1 trillion in debt every 100 days).
An amendment to that will not allow funds from the Ukraine bill to be spent until the budget is balanced
An amendment that that no funds from the Ukraine bill can be spent while our service members are on food stamps.

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