A massive omnibus spending bill headed for a vote in Congress this week is bad policy and bad politics, according to Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.). But it’s worse than that, he argued Wednesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

“I think it’s important to make the moral argument,” said Brat (shown above). “It’s not just about funding more programs. We’re supporting socialism, which fails human beings … It’s because we care about human beings in the first place that you want the right policies.”

The massive spending bill, which would fund the federal government through the end of September 2018, comes after several stopgap measures that have kept the government open for a few weeks or months at a time.

Conservatives have revolted against the deal struck by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). It would appropriate $1.3 trillion and eliminate spending restraints that had slowed the rate of growth in federal expenditures since 2011.

Beyond the spending — financed to a large degree by borrowing — Brat reeled off a number of failings, including only a pittance for the border wall that President Donald Trump wants to build. It fails to cut off funding for so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse cooperate with immigration enforcement efforts. And it continues to fund Planned Parenthood.

Brat noted that the funding, at least indirectly, helps keep the abortion provider’s political arm flush.

“They run ads against Republicans. So we’re funding ads against us.”

“They run ads against Republicans,” he said. “So we’re funding ads against us.”

While Democrats continually complain about the cost of the border wall — with an estimated price tag of $15 billion to $25 billion — Brat said it could be paid for by eliminating grants to sanctuary cities or cutting funds for a rail expansion in the New York area known as the Gateway Project. The spending bill includes $900 million of the project’s $20 billion total.

Brat noted that the national debt just crossed $21 trillion.

“The system will collapse eventually … We’ve just gotten into a bad habit of thinking there’s free money up in D.C.,” he said. “It just flows from the heavens, right? There’s just as much money in the 50 states as there is at the federal level. But there’s not as many lobbyists and cronies, etc., who are trained to get billions of dollars paid back to special interests.”

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Brat also complained that Senate Republicans have given up on passing a budget resolution, which means they cannot use a parliamentary procedure to avoid a Democratic filibuster on conservative priorities, such as reforming welfare or defunding sanctuary cities.

That is how Republicans managed to pass last year’s tax cut, Brat noted.

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“But we gave away our tool, the majority power we had — unilaterally — because the Senate doesn’t want to have a vote until November,” he said. “So [House Speaker] Paul Ryan needs to stand up to those guys and say, ‘Wrong. This is not what we promised the American people.'”

Brat urged people to call their representatives and raise hell about the Planned Parenthood funding. He also endorsed a proposal by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) that would eliminate government shutdowns by mandating spending automatically continue at current levels any time Congress cannot pass a new funding measure.

That would take away a club Democrats use to bludgeon Republicans, Brat said.

“That’s the way the Democrats win, right?” he said. “They play chicken with human beings, and our lives — $4 trillion federal budgets every year.”

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