'Lump of coal': Republicans pen Christmas-themed attacks to decry funding bill

Congressional Republicans took to social media to slam a short-term funding bill out Tuesday that would prevent a federal government shutdown just as the holidays roll around.

In a tribute to the season, some lawmakers not feeling jolly about the 1,500 pages released got creative with their disapproval of the bill that would keep the government open until mid-March.

“The Christmas CR lump of coal comes with a warning,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told her social media followers of the continuing resolution. “Beware the Ides of March..”

Another Republican blasted the funding bill and turned to a Christmas poem written in 1823 for inspiration: “Twas the Night Before Christmas.”

“‘Twas three days before the gov't shutdown And I’m at my desk On page 54 of this 1,547 page mess. The CR is garbage Chocked full of carnage. I’ll be a hard no I won’t stoop that low,” Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) wrote on X.

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“Congress is certainly not sleighing the budget,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) posted to her X account.

She followed that post up with a second non-Christmas-themed statement.

“The first 9 pages of this Continuing Resolution are all we need to keep the government open; the other 1,500+ pages are a handbook on how the government plans to waste your tax dollars for a bit," she wrote.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) also lambasted the bill as “monstrous."

“Washington is beyond broken," he wrote.

While Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) used it to push President-elect Donald Trump’s next-term agenda.

“A 'clean CR,' right? 1,500+ pages, billions in reckless and unpaid spending, new bills that we have no time to review and wouldn't have passed otherwise—business as usual in Washington! Yet another reason we need President Trump and @DOGE to help us stop this crap and clean the federal government up,” Scott wrote on X.