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By Josh Israel -March 11, 2022 10:46 AM
The bill passed the $1.5 trillion package on a 68-31 vote.
The Democratic-controlled Senate passed a bipartisan bill on Thursday night to fund the government for the next year and to provide billions in emergency aid to Ukraine. But more than three-fifths of the chamber's Republican members voted no.
The $1.5 trillion appropriations package came just in the nick of time; the federal government's current stopgap funding bill was set to expire at midnight on Friday. It consolidated a dozen Fiscal 2022 appropriations bills into one omnibus package, plus included $13.6 billion in emergency aid for Ukraine and NATO allies who face a similar threat from Vladimir Putin's Russian regime.
It passed 68 to 31, with all 50 Democrats and 18 Republicans voting in favor.
Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.
https://americanindependent.com/rick-scott-senate-omnibus-bill-ukraine-aid/
You both voted to give a 1.5 trillion tax cut to those that don't need it and one of you ripped off Medicare for the tune of well over 300 million dollars and then you have the audacity to say that this bill will bankrupt the country.....do you think the people that voted for democratic government in Ukraine don't need our help.....oh yeah your guy tried blackmailed him and you basically were all for it, your impeachment vote says everything about you....
ColinC
(8,232 posts)Still stupid though
Midnight Writer
(21,547 posts)They just gave away their game, and gained nothing.
ColinC
(8,232 posts)2naSalit
(86,056 posts)They were holding up by trying to force some BS about the Mexican border being secured first before helping Ukraine.
F'ing assholes.
This will be used in the midterms, hopefully.
2naSalit
(86,056 posts)ForgedCrank
(1,723 posts)happier if these people would come up with an actual budget for once in how long?
It's their primary job, and they aren't doing it. None of them are. It's a really sore subject with me.
ColinC
(8,232 posts)They are very good at saying something doesn't work. But really shitty at proposing anything relevant.
IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)Shocked that 18 Republiqans voted in favor, that is. That was 18 more than I would've predicted.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Could have just as accurately worded it that way.
Put this in campaign ads.
dchill
(38,321 posts)onecaliberal
(32,486 posts)rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Cha
(295,912 posts)bite them in their Collective magat ASS.
NQAS
(10,749 posts)Let's just say that the bill was going to pass. Both sides wanted it. Maybe even everyone, or at least a healthy majority of republicans. Maybe not, but let's work on the assumption that they wanted it passed. Well, the 18 R votes got i passed. But the remaining Rs could still vote no and maintain their credentials as fascists among their cult followers. Win Win. They're immune from criticism from the left because they don't give a fuck about the fascist labeling.
CrispyQ
(36,226 posts)YEAs ---68
Baldwin (D-WI)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt (R-MO)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Capito (R-WV)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ernst (R-IA)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lujan (D-NM)
Manchin (D-WV)
Markey (D-MA)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Peters (D-MI)
Portman (R-OH)
Reed (D-RI)
Rosen (D-NV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sinema (D-AZ)
Smith (D-MN)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
Wyden (D-OR)
Young (R-IN)
NAYs ---31
Blackburn (R-TN)
Boozman (R-AR)
Braun (R-IN)
Burr (R-NC)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Daines (R-MT)
Fischer (R-NE)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hawley (R-MO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Romney (R-UT)
Rounds (R-SD)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Not Voting - 1
Inhofe (R-OK)
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Frame the "Nay" votes as votes for Putin and against Ukraine. Let the folks who voted "Nay" explain themselves. No point in us doing it for them.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)Thanks!
KS Toronado
(16,909 posts)Magoo48
(4,659 posts)Magoo48
(4,659 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,276 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Link to tweet
It's all about the OIL & GAS Profits.
Humanitarian needs are not in their considerations.
iscooterliberally
(2,849 posts)They're only in the senate to represent themselves.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)That when world peace hung by a thread the Republican Party turned its back.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,450 posts)Hate democracy. They want to rule not govern.
They want to erase the laws so they can abuse and act out thier hatreds on people they don't like without consequences.
They need to be exiled from all positions of power and preferably be executed for thier crimes against America. Or at minimum jailed for life no parole and cut off from the outside world.
No calls or net. Mail that is checked for any money or other contraband ( they do that in prison)
That would be justice.
These fascists and the wealthy and the not so wealthy criminals supporting them are unfit to govern anything. They need all thier contacts ,money sources and crimes exposed and stopped.
Brother Buzz
(36,214 posts)I don't know what they have to say
It makes no difference anyway
Whatever it is, I'm against it
No matter what it is or who commenced it
I'm against it
Your proposition may be good
But let's have one thing understood:
Whatever it is, I'm against it
And even when you've changed it or condensed it
I'm against it
I'm opposed to it
On general principles, I'm opposed to it
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,999 posts)captain queeg
(10,036 posts)This would seem the most obvious. Except that 18 hadnt? I doubt that but maybe they arent in as deep as the rest. Or more likely they see the majority in their districts overwhelmingly support Ukraine. I hope the truth comes out by next election
Rebl2
(13,309 posts)agingdem
(7,759 posts)voted no...maybe now we Dems have learned our lesson?...when a Republican has a twinge of conscience we can't praise him enough for doing the right thing, people over party...and every time we gush rhapsodic, it always comes back to bite us on the ass..
tavernier
(12,322 posts)agingdem
(7,759 posts)filibuster regarding the voting rights bill and praised Sinema and Manchin on their "courageous" no vote...so his no vote on the Ukraine emergency aid bill was no surprise...
70sEraVet
(3,430 posts)I had disliked Corker, but at least he had limits to how far down the cesspool he was willing to go.
calimary
(80,699 posts)Make em run on THAT in November!!!
DO NOT let ANYBODY forget!
YoshidaYui
(41,762 posts)The Republican Party chock full of Traitors
papa3times
(150 posts)these Republicans want to push support for the war criminal Putin back in his favor. They will oppose everything, and I mean everything Biden does, especially if it may help him politically like if this whole war falls apart and Putin declares victory and goes home. That's the last thing these fuckin' Republicans want. The interests of America and whole economy be damned!