18 Republicans vote for Dems $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill

On Wednesday, the US Senate voted 67-32 to advance on Democrat’s $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” spending bill with 18 Republicans voting in favor of advancing this bill. All of these members have casted their “procedural” vote meaning none of them have read the bill because the bill has still not been written after months of negations from both sides.

The Senate Republicans who voted for this bill are:

1. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
2. Richard Burr (R-NC)
3. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
4. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
5. Mike Crapo (R-ID)
6. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
7. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
8. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
9. Rob Portman (R-OH)
10. Jim Risch (R-ID)
11. Mitt Romney (R-UT)
12. Thom Tillis (R-NC)
13. Todd Young (R-IN)
14. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
15. John Hoeven (R-ND)
16. Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
17. Susan Collins (R-ME)
18. Mike Rounds (R-SD)

Senators Rick Scott (R-FL), Mike Lee (R-UT), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Mike Braun (R-IN) stated that they cannot vote to advance the bill to add more debt the nation’s already huge $30 trillion deficit.

“Congress can’t keep spending trillions of dollars we don’t have. The infrastructure package announced today continues the trend in Congress of insane deficit spending. Let’s not forget, this is just the first step in the Democrats’ plan to pass their $5.5 trillion tax and spend liberal wish list. Our nation is facing a nearly $30 TRILLION federal debt crisis. There are real infrastructure needs across the country. But, with growing inflation and many families struggling to financially recover from the events of the last year, it is not wise to throw fuel on the fire that is the raging inflation crisis and labor shortage we are seeing across America. Needless to say, we will not support this legislation.”

Said the Senate Republicans and did not vote to advance this “infrastructure” bill

Additionally, Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina tweeted that he had to vote no on advancing the bill because lawmakers have yet to draft legislative text

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