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The government was supposed to be fully funded by Oct. 1 last year but lawmakers have instead passed three continuing resolutions to partially fund it while members of Congress debate what many GOP members feel is a bloated budget. The House voted 314 to 108 to approve the stopgap funding, with the Senate affirming the continuing resolution with a vote of 77-to-18. Legislation was passed just hours before the Friday deadline. President Biden has until midnight Friday to sign the bill, ensuring that the federal government has the funding to keep functioning. However, both of Missouri’s U.S. Senators and two of the state’s U.S. Representatives, Eric Burlison and Mark Alford, voted against the legislation, which Sen. Eric Schmitt thinks is “simply kicking the fiscal responsibility can down the road,” according to his post on X. "We've spent a grand total in a year and a month of eight hours on appropriation bills,” Schmitt said. “It's a total disaster. We've got to fight for reform. We're spending trillions of dollars we don't even have, and we never have a chance to actually debate these issues and weigh in to have a balanced budget. That's what I'm fighting for.” Burlison shares many of the same sentiments, saying that his dissenting vote was spurred by a desire to lower federal spending to pre-pandemic levels. “Since coming to Congress, I've advocated for returning to pre-COVID levels of spending as the first step to reducing spending and getting our debt under control,” Burlison said in a post on X. “But this new deal doesn't do that. In fact, it increases spending. Our national debt has skyrocketed to over $34 trillion. When will we grow a backbone and start taking our debt seriously?” More:Rep. Burlison proposes bill to boost education savings, implement school choice in states Burlison said that this continuing resolution was the result of Congressional leaders needing more time to find an agreement on spending before negotiations on a full budget could occur with the Biden administration. But Burlison feels a different tactic should be taken in these negotiations. “We need to use the spending bills to force the Biden administration to secure the border,” Burlison said. “We need to defund their woke programs, and we need to fire those bureaucrats who have used their positions to attack their fellow Americans.” Rep. Mark Alford shared similar sentiments to Schmitt, in a post on X, indicating that he would “be a 'HELL NO' on this CR.” “We cannot continue to kick the can down the road,” Alford said. “If we do, I fear for our future as a nation.” Sen. Hawley shared no public reactions or reasons for his vote against the continuing resolution. 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