Nancy Mace Rails Against ‘Bunch of Woke Nonsense’ Stuffed in Failed ‘CRomnibus’

The ill-fated stopgap had several provisions, alongside continued funding of the government through mid-March that attracted loud criticism from Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump, and tanked its support among Republicans. Mace issued a lengthy thread on X explaining provisions she took issue with in the legislation, which she said was more of a combination of a continuing resolution and omnibus — a “CRomnibus.”

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Mace took issue with provisions unrelated to keeping the government open, including parts about “music tourism,” exempting members of Congress from Obamacare, and funding the Global Engagement Center — which has been accused of being an unconstitutional “censorship scheme.”

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The Global Engagement Center, which has come under increased scrutiny in recent years due to how it has issued grants to outside groups that have worked to suppress right-leaning online voices, got a year of extended funding under the stopgap, after the the State Department said it would close the agency.

Most of Mace’s complaints revolved around changes to language about various types of people. The stopgap bill would have redefined “homeless individuals” as “individuals experiencing homelessness,” “out of school youth” as “opportunity youth,” and “criminal offender” as “justice-involved individual,” among other changes.

The definition changes buried in the continuing resolution follow terms left-liberal activists have pushed for in recent years, to reframe common terminology. Attempted changes to these terms have largely been mocked by conservative activists and centrists but made their way into the proposed stopgap.

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