18 Senate Republicans Vote for $1.85 Trillion Omnibus Bill

MARY CHASTAIN DEC 22, 2022 4:00 PM

Reason #1,789,765,986 why I’m a libertarian.

18 Senate Republicans voted for the trash $1.85 trillion omnibus bill to keep the government funded until September 2023:

• Roy Blunt, Missouri
• John Boozman, Arkansas
• Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
• Susan Collins, Maine
• John Cornyn, Texas
• Tom Cotton, Arkansas
• Lindsey Graham, South Carolina
• Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma
• Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
• Jerry Moran, Kansas
• Lisa Murkowski, Alaska
• Rob Portman, Ohio
• Mitt Romney, Utah
• Mike Rounds, South Dakota
• Richard Shelby, Alabama
• John Thune, South Dakota
• Roger Wicker, Mississippi
• Todd Young, Indiana

Three did not vote:

• John Barasso, Wyoming
• Richard Burr, North Carolina
• Kevin Cramer, North Dakota

Four voted against the bill after voting to advance it:

• Tommy Tuberville, Alabama
• Marco Rubio, Florida
• Chuck Grassley, Iowa
• Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi

The bill has 6,825 pages:

• 4,155 pages dedicated to legislation
• 2,670 pages for explanations

Attached to the bill are 4,000 earmarks for pet projects.

I’m going to puke.

It includes $45 billion in Ukraine aid. How much have we given Ukraine?

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell exclaimed the #1 priority of Republicans is providing assistance to Ukraine:

Excuse me? Inflation, old man. INFLATION is the top priority of any normal American. It’s expensive to provide basic needs for the family.

Leslie wrote about the disturbing “family planning” feature.

How about a Michelle Obama Trail in Georgia? An LGBTQ museum in NYC?

There’s $524.4 million for DEI and “structural racism” research at NIH.

Now it goes to the House. It’ll easily pass there, too.

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