Here Are 21 Republicans Who Voted for $1.7T Socialist, Inflation Bill

Independent Sentinel ^ | December 21, 2022 | By M Dowling

[Red Badger]

An inflationary, wild spending bill of $1.7 trillion ($1.7T) has passed through the first approval process in the Senate, with 21 Republicans helping the far-left Pelosi-Schumer Democrats pass it. Some Republicans are pushing back, but can they do anything?

The bill funds the open border and doesn’t do a thing to close it! People will take jobs from Americans who need them the most. Plus, they – whoever they are – will eventually vote and make us all far-left Democrats for life with no freedoms. Infuriating!

Twenty-one Republicans voted for this 4,155-page, $1.7T monstrosity. As Rand Paul said, who needs Democrats when you have Republicans like this? See who they are below.

The bill is based on pandemic spending. They won’t go back to more normal spending so they can bake big government into the cake.

Rand Paul and Allies Will Fight the Socialist Big Government Bill “I brought along the 1.7 trillion, 4,000+ page Pelosi-Schumer omnibus spending bill that’s being fast-tracked through the Senate. This process stinks. It’s an abomination. It’s a no good rotten way to run government. We’re standing up and saying NO,” Rand Paul said.

Here are the 21 bad Republicans who voted for the $1.7T socialist bill, betraying the so-called values of the GOP:

Blunt

Boozman

Capito

Collins

Cornyn

Cotton

Graham

Grassley

Hyde-Smith

McConnell

Moran

Murkowski

Portman

Romney

Rounds

Rubio

Shelby

Thune

Tuberville

Wicker

Young

Some are known RINOs who vote with Democrats as much as Republicans. By their voting with far-left Democrats half the time, they show their lack of awareness of how serious the state of the nation is, or they’re just Socialist Democrats posing as Republicans. The swamp is alive and well. They don’t care about the people and how Americans are suffering.

Instead of stopping the invasion at the border, they’re prolonging a loser war in Ukraine for their borders. That war never should have happened and didn’t need to if Zelensky didn’t violate all previous agreements with Russia at the behest of NATO.

We posted some of what is in this disgusting inflation bill here and here.

CEI Experts Stated Their Opinion Last Week About the $1.7T Monstrosity Fred L. Smith, Jr. Fellow in Regulatory Studies Wayne Crews said:

“The problem with today’s omnibus spending package funding federal departments and agencies—like the 4,155-page package containing at last glance $772 billion in discretionary spending plus $858 billion for wars we supposedly ended—is that big-government progressivism is increasingly baked in the cake. Leading Senate Republicans, though, are prepared to vote ‘aye’ this week despite their coming into power in a month. This is a missed opportunity.

“Despite some Senators’ claim that they are holding the line on non-defense discretionary spending in a bill none of them have read, the agencies Congress is about to fund are colluding on big-government pursuits and overarching ‘plans’ and policy guidance on the likes of climate, equity and antitrust with little pushback from Congress.

“Postponing any omnibus until the 118th Congress next month with a temporary funding extension should be the least demanded of GOP negotiators. The $2 trillion deficits on track to swamp us before the end of the decade are larger than total yearly outlays were during the 1990s.”

Director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebell said:

“The Omnibus Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2023 notably does not contain funding for the United Nations Green Climate Fund or Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) deeply flawed permitting bill that proposes to hand the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unconstitutional powers to overrule state authority or the expanded Colorado Wilderness bill. But defenders of freedom and property rights should not celebrate because it is still full of increased funding for wasteful and ineffective climate and environmental programs that Congress should eliminate instead.”

CEI senior fellow Ben Lieberman said:

“The omnibus includes $5 billion dollars for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for the purpose of helping those struggling to pay their energy bills. Though far from the most objectionable part of this big spending package, it is important to remember that the Biden Administration crackdown on domestic coal, oil, and natural gas is a significant part of the reason energy got to be so unaffordable in the first place. If Washington prioritized an energy abundance agenda instead of a price-boosting climate change agenda, the need for LIHEAP would be considerably less.”

CONTACT YOUR SENATORS Frank D. Lovell, American Patriot, Free State of Florida, said:

SHUT IT DOWN!!

Donalds, Roy, Perry, & 10 Others Send Letter To U.S. Senate Republicans Urging Them To Derail the $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill.

Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) issued the following statement regarding his support of a letter by Congressmen Chip Roy (R-TX), Scott Perry (R-PA), and ten additional Members and Members-Elect urging Senate Republicans to take all steps necessary to stop the omnibus spending bill. Cosponsors of the letter also include Representatives Bishop (R-NC), Biggs (R-AZ), Rosendale (R-MT), Gaetz (R-FL), Norman (R-SC), Good (R-VA), Clyde (R-GA), and Members of Congress-Elect Luna (R-FL), Ogles (R-TN), and Crane (R-AZ).

“We urge you to take all steps necessary to stop the soon-to-be finalized omnibus spending bill negotiated with Democrats. At the very least, due respect for Americans who elected us would call for not passing a “lame duck” spending bill just days before Members fly home for Christmas and two weeks before a new Republican majority is sworn in for the 118th Congress. Senate Republicans have the 41 votes necessary to stop this and should do so now and show the Americans who elected you that they weren’t wrong in doing so.,”

That is what each & every one of us must do, contact your Congress & tell them there is no compromise, vote no & let’s shut this illegal government down. If we don’t, the first bad thing to happen will be the House Republicans will be prevented from stopping the spending in Congress & it gets worse from there. By the way, if we shut the govt down, all essential services continue to be funded; it’s the ‘special projects’ that shut down. basically, we force the govt to be efficient.

[fwdude]

Cornyn. Of course.

Only half of my senators are sane.

[bray]

Inflation and high and high gas prices doesn’t affect these traitors in the slightest. China Mitch just got a raise.

[Red Badger]

Or both are half insane...............

[lgjhn23]

Nothing but a bunch of UniParty hack piglets greedily swilling the slop from the tax trough. The dollar amounts they were paid for their vote should be posted next to their names.
Tell me again, America; when is enough, enough?

[qaz123]

One thing that needs to be known is, the House has no control over anything for a year. By then, most of them are running for re-election and won’t care about the next CR.

And these scumbags voted for this, knowing that. So they won’t have to take a stand when an issue comes up because they just punted.

So, as much as it would be nice to blame all of them, and they are to blame, blame the voters that put them there.

Blame Alaskan voters for allowing that decrepit POS to get another 6 years. Blame Utah for electing that scum of the earth Romney. Blame Texas for continuing to elect Cornyn, who never misses a chance to sell out his constituency.

And, sadly, if they needed more votes, they would have got more votes. The names are just the ones that are willing to put themselves out there. There were many more that would have happily voted for this monstrosity but they got political cover.

[qaz123]

Which, now that I think of it, since the incoming House has nothing to worry about, they’ll have plenty of time to investigate the laptop, Hunter, his dad, release the videos from the Capitol on Jan6, work on getting the folks in the jail released, finding out who Maxwell trafficked kids to, not allowing the DoD to send anymore bombs or bullets to Ukraine, investigate the crypto stuff, investigate the FBI......YEAHHHHHHHHHHH RIGHT!!!!!

Nothing will get done

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

Both of my senators are socialist. I will never vote for either of them again. At least I didn’t hold my nose and vote for Boozman this year. I think the Junior POS is up for re-election in a few years, but there are enough Rockefeller/Romney RINOs to get him renominated.

[ConservativeInPA]

Bannon was saying this morning that the federal government will spend $6 Trillion this year when you factor in this bill, military spending, interest on the debt, social security, Medicare and Medicaid. That will add $2 Trillion to the debt. That isn’t hyperbole. November’s budget deficit was $259 Billion.

But it’s okay, Linda Graham called for a balance budget amendment yesterday. So his ass is covered with the morons in South Carolina.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Apparently, only half of my Senators are sane, too.

[gibsonguy]

This cripples the R controlled House and Mitch and his merry band of traitors knows it. He just gave the House back to Pelosi.

[fwdude]

This cripples the R controlled House and Mitch and his merry band of traitors knows it. He just gave the House back to Pelosi.

Yep. Sometimes I think the GOP just wants to win so that they can capitulate to the Communists.

[jacknhoo]

Lesser-of-two-evils ridiculous voting logic results. Usual RINOs.

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

There are only a handful of Republican senators that are worth anything IMO.

Conservative Review Liberty Scores:

Rand Paul: https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/rand-paul
Mike Lee: https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/mike-lee
Marsha Blackburn: https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/marsha-blackburn
Ted Cruz: https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/ted-cruz
Josh Hawley: https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/joshua-hawley
Ron Johnson: https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/ron-johnson
John Kennedy: https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/john-kennedy

[gibsonguy]

Cornyn. Of course.“

Always, is that worthless POS up in 24?

[Sacajaweau]

Simple political blackmail...or shut down the government...send gov workers home...and give them all back pay when they return...They love it...It’s what they asked Schumer for when they kissed his feet....oops..I mean Santa...

[showme_the_Glory]

When is his term up?

[fwdude]

Nope. Cornhole was re-elected in 2020. We’ll have to endure him for at least another 4 years.

[fwdude]

When is his term up?

2026.

I worked to primary him out in 2020, and we had some good conservative contenders. The power of incumbency pushed him over the top.

[Organic Panic]

I’m surprised by Rubio. Damned wimps.