Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he would sue President Joe Biden for illegally signing the state’s nearly $1.7 trillion fiscal year 2023 budget bill without a quorum in the House. · Biden and his administration.
“Attorney General Paxton is suing President Biden and his administration for illegally signing and enforcing the latest omnibus spending bill – the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2023,” said a statement posted on the attorney general’s office website.
The statement said the House approved the $1.7 trillion budget without a quorum, which Paxton said was a “blatant violation of the US Constitution.”
The Texas Attorney General emphasized: “I am suing the Biden administration to block the implementation of this bill because it was not legally passed and is unconstitutional.”
He recalled that under the country’s constitution, passage of a bill requires the physical presence of at least half of the members of the House of Representatives. Under the scenario of approving the budget, in December 2022, less than half of the House members will be present and more than half will vote remotely.
Paxton noted: “The only powers given to a House of Representatives without a quorum by the U.S. Constitution are to ‘adjourn until another day’ or to ‘compel the attendance of absent members.’ Because ‘present’ implies physical attendance, the U.S. Constitution does not allow remote voting as a quorum.” in accordance with.”

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