{"id":1785370,"date":"2022-12-23T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T22:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785370"},"modified":"2022-12-23T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T22:03:18","slug":"aoc-breaks-ranks-in-1-7-trillion-omnibus-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-breaks-ranks-in-1-7-trillion-omnibus-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Breaks Ranks In $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Vote"},"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\">16<\/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%2Faoc-breaks-ranks-in-1-7-trillion-omnibus-vote%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=1785370&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--><p>A handful of Democrats and Republicans bucked their respective parties in the House vote Friday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-sends-monster-1-7-trillion-spending-bill-to-joe-bidens-desk-with-backing-from-9-republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pass the $1.7 trillion \u201comnibus\u201d bill<\/a>\u00a0stuffed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pork-parks-and-woke-all-the-fun-features-in-1-7-trillion-omnibus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all sorts of pork<\/a> according to critics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2022549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These defectors<\/a> collectively did little to change the results. By a 225-201 vote, the massive spending legislation cleared the lower chamber and now heads to President Joe Biden, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/12\/23\/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-passage-of-the-bipartisan-year-end-omnibus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says he will sign it into law<\/a>. The 4,155-page bill, which features $858 billion in defense funding, as well as $772.5 billion for non-defense \u201cdiscretionary programs,\u201d already passed the Senate on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>On the Democratic Party side, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was the sole \u201cno\u201d vote, though a fellow member of \u201cThe Squad,\u201d Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), also stood out, voting \u201cpresent\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattloff\/status\/1606365690146959360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by proxy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Ocasio-Cortez cited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/management\/2022\/12\/here-are-major-takeaways-17-trillion-omnibus-spending-bill\/381162\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spending for the Homeland Security Department<\/a> and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement sub-agency as well as the omnibus\u2019 significant commitment to national security as her reasons for opposing the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI campaigned on a promise to my constituents: to oppose additional expansion for ICE and DHS \u2014 particularly in the absence of long-overdue immigration reform,\u201d the leftist firebrand said. \u201cFor that reason, as well as the dramatic increase in defense spending with exceeds even President Biden\u2019s request, I voted no on today\u2019s omnibus bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released the following statement following her \u2018no\u2019 vote on the omnibus spending bill: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/90HZhhDbCt\">pic.twitter.com\/90HZhhDbCt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAOC\/status\/1606381735415103489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although she opposed the overall bill, Ocasio-Cortez defended certain \u201cvictories\u201d achieved during negotiations, including \u201csignificant funding\u201d for more than a dozen community projects in her district that includes the Bronx and Queens.<\/p>\n<p>Her statement was met with some chiding in light of the congresswoman\u00a0responding Thursday to a Twitter thread from the office of Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) that highlighted $3,000,000 for \u201cclean energy workforce development\u201d at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority as a \u201cpet project\u201d of Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for calling attention to my \u2018pet project\u2019 of making New York State a global leader in combating climate change and creating tons of good, high-paying jobs for people in the process,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez retorted. \u201cI\u2019m proud of it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for calling attention to my \u201cpet project\u201d of making New York State a global leader in combating climate change and creating tons of good, high-paying jobs for people in the process. I\u2019m proud of it! \ud83c\udf0e\ud83d\uddfd<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s your pet project? Being a hater for a living? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VkpBLQyNdu\">https:\/\/t.co\/VkpBLQyNdu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1605991163285995521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After her \u201cno\u201d vote on Friday, Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross quipped, \u201cAOC was for the omnibus before she was against it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AOC was for the omnibus before she was against it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pdY17mjvCu\">https:\/\/t.co\/pdY17mjvCu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckRossDC\/status\/1606375320092901376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Siraj Hashmi, a member of The Habibi Bros political podcast and creator of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ListComesForAll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The List<\/a>\u201d (which ridicules Twitter users for what it deems to be cringeworthy tweets), shared a screenshot of a tweet noting AOC was the only Democratic \u201cno\u201d vote and asked, \u201cthis u?\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">this u? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f7nB1qc5Ci\">pic.twitter.com\/f7nB1qc5Ci<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 siraj hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SirajAHashmi\/status\/1606374135717892115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nine Republicans broke ranks with the rest of their party on Friday, voting with the vast majority of Democrats to pass the spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>These defectors were Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Chris Jacobs (R-NY), John Katko (R-NY), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Fred Upton (R-MI), and Steve Womack (R-AR).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Four Republicans declined to vote. They were Reps. Ken Buck (R-CO), Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN), and David McKinley (R-WV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of Democrats and Republicans bucked their respective parties in the House vote Friday to pass the $1.7 trillion \u201comnibus\u201d bill\u00a0stuffed with all sorts of pork according to critics. These defectors collectively did little to change the results. By a 225-201 vote, the massive spending legislation cleared the lower chamber and now heads to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1785373,"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":[541],"tags":[6962,10109,8334,6449,6202,7991,11515,4408,4474,6195],"class_list":["post-1785370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-1-7","tag-aoc","tag-breaks","tag-daily","tag-omnibus","tag-ranks","tag-trillion","tag-vote","tag-wire"],"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\/1785370","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}