{"id":986401,"date":"2021-11-08T19:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=986401"},"modified":"2021-11-08T19:13:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T00:13:38","slug":"republicans-who-supported-bidens-1-2t-infrastructure-bill-once-opposed-25b-for-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-who-supported-bidens-1-2t-infrastructure-bill-once-opposed-25b-for-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Who Supported Biden&#039;s $1.2T Infrastructure Bill Once Opposed $25B for Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Frepublicans-who-supported-bidens-1-2t-infrastructure-bill-once-opposed-25b-for-border-wall%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=986401&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\/2021\/11\/GOP-Sens-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">As 32 House and Senate Republicans helped breathe life into President Joe Biden\u2019s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, some once opposed the prospect of spending $25 billion to build border wall in an effort to reduce illegal immigration to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, 13 House Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/05\/republicans-bail-out-biden-and-pelosi-to-pass-1-2-trillion-so-called-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill\/\">voted with<\/a> Democrats to send a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill to Biden\u2019s desk. In early August, 19 Senate Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/10\/19-senate-republicans-made-history-for-joe-biden-by-passing-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill\/\">did the same<\/a>, helping pass the bill through the chamber to the House for approval.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/06\/republicans-approve-0-for-border-wall-in-democrat-infrastructure-bill\/\">includes $0<\/a> for construction of border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, despite proclaiming to be a package of infrastructure projects and a record-high flow of illegal immigration to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The 13 House Republicans who voted for the bill include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Katko (R-NY)<\/li>\n<li>Don Bacon (R-NE)<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ)<\/li>\n<li>Fred Upton (R-MI)<\/li>\n<li>Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)<\/li>\n<li>Don Young (R-AK)<\/li>\n<li>Tom Reed (R-NY)<\/li>\n<li>Chris Smith (R-NJ)<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Garbarino (R-NY)<\/li>\n<li>Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY)<\/li>\n<li>Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)<\/li>\n<li>Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH)<\/li>\n<li>David McKinley (R-WV)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 19 Senate Republicans who voted for the bill include:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Dan Sullivan (R-AK)<\/li>\n<li>Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)<\/li>\n<li>Mike Crapo (R-ID)<\/li>\n<li>Roy Blunt (R-MO)<\/li>\n<li>Richard Burr (R-NC)<\/li>\n<li>Deb Fischer (R-NE)<\/li>\n<li>Lindsey Graham (R-SC)<\/li>\n<li>Rob Portman (R-OH)<\/li>\n<li>Thom Tillis (R-NC)<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)<\/li>\n<li>Jim Risch (R-ID)<\/li>\n<li>Chuck Grassley (R-IA)<\/li>\n<li>Bill Cassidy (R-LA)<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Cramer (R-ND)<\/li>\n<li>Roger Wicker (R-MS)<\/li>\n<li>Mitch McConnell (R-KY)<\/li>\n<li>John Hoeven (R-ND)<\/li>\n<li>Susan Collins (R-ME)<\/li>\n<li>Mitt Romney (R-UT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A number of Senate Republicans who supported the $1.2 trillion bill once balked at former President Donald Trump\u2019s plans to secure $25 billion in border wall funding, suggesting that the plan cost too much money.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2018, for instance, Blunt and Murkowski both seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/WedDu\">opposed<\/a> plans to include $25 billion for border wall construction in an appropriations bill. When Blunt was asked about the funding, NBC News reported that he laughed while Murkowski said the plan \u201cworried\u201d her.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that year, when Trump laid out a framework to secure the $25 billion from Congress to build border wall, Graham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/jan\/28\/sen-lindsey-graham-were-not-going-to-build-a-1900-\/\">told<\/a> ABC News that \u201cyou don\u2019t need $25 billion for a wall,\u201d suggesting that the money needed to go towards \u201cwall systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In September 2019, 11 Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/09\/25\/eleven-gop-senators-vote-against-border-emergency-wall\/\">Republicans helped<\/a> Democrats strike down Trump\u2019s then-national emergency order at the southern border which had allowed him to seek out different funding avenues for border wall construction after the Republican-controlled Congress from 2017 to 2018 continuously failed to pass a sum large enough to fill gaps of the nearly 2,000-mile-long border.<\/p>\n<p>Blunt, Murkowski, Collins, Romney, Portman, and Wicker, all of whom voted for Biden\u2019s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, voted with Democrats to block Trump\u2019s ability to seek out other funding avenues.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the Republican-controlled Congress when Trump was president, GOP leadership in the House and Senate offered little funds for border wall construction.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2018, for instance, House and Senate Republicans approved a spending bill that funded wall construction to the sum of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/03\/25\/despite-trumps-claims-1-6b-border-fencing\/\">just $1.6 billion<\/a> \u2014 nearly $24 billion less than what Trump had asked for. On top of the limited funds, the spending bill also set limits on where and how the administration could construct border wall.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 32 House and Senate Republicans helped breathe life into President Joe Biden\u2019s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, some once opposed the prospect of spending $25 billion to build border wall &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986401","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}