{"id":1785222,"date":"2022-12-23T13:17:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T18:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785222"},"modified":"2022-12-23T13:17:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T18:17:43","slug":"these-18-senate-republicans-voted-for-democrats-sleazy-1-7-trillion-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-18-senate-republicans-voted-for-democrats-sleazy-1-7-trillion-spending-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"These 18 Senate Republicans Voted For Democrats\u2019 Sleazy $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthese-18-senate-republicans-voted-for-democrats-sleazy-1-7-trillion-spending-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785222&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Picture1-7.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>After selling out their base on marriage and gun control, Senate Republicans decided to finish out 2022 by helping Democrats pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package on Thursday that will keep the federal government funded through the end of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Released on Tuesday, the mammoth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/JRQ121922.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">4,155-page bill<\/a> cleared a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senate-passes-monster-spending-package-with-backing-from-at-least-18-republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">procedural vote<\/a> held by the upper chamber later that same day, with 70 senators supporting and only 25 opposing. Despite objections from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/20\/house-republicans-threaten-legislative-gridlock-for-senate-colleagues-who-support-reckless-omnibus-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Republicans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?524978-1\/group-senate-republicans-voices-opposition-17-trillion-omnibus-spending-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">several of their GOP Senate colleagues<\/a>, 18 Republican senators joined Senate Democrats in passing the wasteful bill, at a final vote of 68-29.<\/p>\n<p>Among the Republicans who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/12\/22\/senate-republicans-vote-omnibus-bill-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted in favor<\/a> are Sens. Roy Blunt of Missouri, John Boozman and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Susan Collins of Maine, Mitt Romney of Utah, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, John Cornyn of Texas, Shelley Moore Capito\u00a0of West Virginia, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Mike Rounds and John Thune of South Dakota, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Richard Shelby of Alabama, and Todd Young of Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Three GOP senators \u2014 Richard Burr of North Carolina, John Barrasso of Wyoming, and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota \u2014 didn\u2019t even bother to vote on the bill.<\/p>\n<p>By helping Democrats pass an omnibus instead of a short-term funding package, Senate Minority Leader McConnell and Senate GOP leadership have erased any and all leverage the House\u2019s incoming Republican majority would have over spending issues for most of 2023. This means conservative priorities, such as fixing President Joe Biden\u2019s manufactured border crisis, will go unaddressed for another year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an act of extortion being leveraged on the United States Senate right before Christmas,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UK0IOHzbVoI&#038;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, during a speech on the Senate floor. \u201cThis bill, in all 4,155 pages of its glory \u2014 or infamy \u2014 was negotiated in secret by four or five members of Congress. \u2026 They wrote it utterly in secret with the design of creating an artificial emergency, threatening a shutdown right before Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the bill\u2019s passage, Lee proposed an amendment to keep Title 42 \u2014 the Trump-era policy making it easier to deport illegal immigrants at the border \u2014 in place. The amendment ultimately failed on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/22\/ten-establishment-senators-help-mike-lees-title-42-amendment-fail-enabling-omnibus-advancement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">47-50 vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>The Bill Is a Pork-Filled Disaster<\/h2>\n<p>But the $1.7 trillion omnibus doesn\u2019t just add to America\u2019s already-ballooning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$31.4 trillion<\/a> national debt. It also directs funding toward a slew of wasteful agenda items that everyday Americans never asked for.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/JRQ121922.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bill<\/a> is an allotment of \u201cnot less than\u201d $575 million that is \u201cmade available for family planning\/reproductive health, including in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity or endangered species.\u201d The measure also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/12\/22\/senate-republicans-vote-omnibus-bill-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">provides<\/a> grants to numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/21\/omnibus-bill-earmarks-11-million-for-lgbt-related-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LGBT-related entities<\/a>, such as $750,000 to the TransLatin@ Coalition and $3 million to the New York Historical Society\u2019s \u201cAmerican LGBTQ+ Museum Partnership Project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are small facets of the omnibus, with the two agencies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/five-eye-popping-spending-items-1-7-trillion-omnibus-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">receiving<\/a> $1.56 billion and $339.6 million, respectively, for \u201cnon-detention border management requirements.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The funding, however, comes with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/five-eye-popping-spending-items-1-7-trillion-omnibus-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">strings attached<\/a> that hinder immigration officials\u2019 ability to effectively deal with the ongoing border crisis. As noted in the bill, the grants are prohibited from being utilized to \u201cacquire, maintain, or extend border security technology and capabilities,\u201d unless they are employed to \u201cimprove Border Patrol processing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the bill gives Ukraine an additional <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/3781964-final-funding-bill-includes-45b-for-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$45 billion<\/a> in aid.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"84foh67vu9dPJnmRaON3lFKJzEB5rjrLVKSIGFlHj8IZ0vUiPWTWbxV3X5C1yewdpD26HbE7Yw\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My team and I are reading through the omnibus bill today \u2013 all $1.7 trillion and 4,155 pages of it. <\/p>\n<p>Follow along for some of the most egregious provisions in the bill \u2b07\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDanBishop\/status\/1605253710753501186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Senate Republicans\u2019 History of Betrayal <\/h2>\n<p>The passage of the omnibus by Senate Republicans is one of several times the party in the upper chamber has stabbed its voters in the back this year. Several weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/29\/12-gop-senators-help-democrats-erode-americans-right-to-act-on-religious-convictions-about-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">12 GOP senators<\/a> joined Democrats in passing the wrongly named, \u201cRespect for Marriage Act,\u201d which will allow LBGT activists to use the legal system as a means of harassing religious Americans who believe in the true meaning of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, 14 Senate Republicans also helped Democrats advance their war against the Second Amendment by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/22\/the-14-republicans-who-voted-to-advance-democrats-gun-control-wish-list-just-betrayed-their-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voting<\/a> for a gun control package that funds red flag laws, \u201cwhich allow law enforcement to temporarily confiscate guns from someone the government deems a danger to the public or themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/22\/the-do-something-gun-control-bill-does-little-but-erode-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> by Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi, red flag laws are ripe for abuse and erode the Second Amendment rights of American citizens.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Shawn Fleetwood is a Staff Writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite objections from House Republicans and their Senate colleagues, 18 GOP senators joined Democrats in passing the 4,155-page bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1742705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[9369,6962,10109,3895,3685,6919,3756,3740,11475,3834,11108,4408,7270],"class_list":["post-1785222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-for","tag-the","tag-1-7","tag-bill","tag-democrats","tag-federalist","tag-republicans","tag-senate","tag-sleazy","tag-spending","tag-these","tag-trillion","tag-voted"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}