Posted on 02/13/2024 9:16:11 AM PST by Kazan
The Senate early Tuesday passed a massive $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan with no border funding while almost all Americans were sound asleep. The final vote came after conservatives mounted an all-night filibuster led by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), which stopped just after 5 a.m.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the Senate found the bill so urgent that they invoked cloture on Super Bowl Sunday by a 67-27 vote. 18 GOPers voted to sell America out to foreign interests.
TGP previously noted the package includes a whopping $60 Billion for Ukraine and $14 Billion for Israel. The other money goes toward “humanitarian” assistance for Gaza and the West Bank, along with deterring Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific, including defending Taiwan.
Last night, this number grew to 22 Republican senators voted to pass the bill. Two Democrats, Jeff Merkley and Peter Welch (D-VT, voted no. Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT) also voted to reject the bill.
All three had expressed anger over the money provided to Israel in the package, which would go to helping the Jewish state defend itself against Hamas terrorists.
The final vote was 70-29. Here are the 22 GOPers who voted with the Democrats to put America last:
1. Mitch McConnell (KY)
2. John Thune (SD)
3. John Boozman (AR)
4. Shelley Moore Capito (WV)
5. Bill Cassidy (LA)
6. Susan Collins (ME)
7. John Cornyn (TX)
8. Kevin Cramer (ND)
9. Mike Crapo (ID)
10. Joni Ernst (IA)
11. Chuck Grassley (IA)
12. John Hoeven (ND)
13. John Kennedy (LA)
14. Jerry Moran (KS)
15. Lisa Murkowski (AK)
16. Jim Risch (ID)
17. Mitt Romney (UT)
18. Mike Rounds (SD)
19. Dan Sullivan (AK)
20. Thom Tillis (NC)
21. Roger Wicker (MS)
22. Todd Young (IN)
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) praised the bill as one that demonstrates American leadership and sends a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin:
American leadership will not waver, not falter, not fail. Today, we make Vladimir Putin regret the day he questioned America’s resolve.
Today, we send a clear bipartisan message of resolve to our allies in NATO.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy crowed over the bill’s passage as well in a late-night X post:
I am grateful to @SenSchumer, @LeaderMcConnell, and every US Senator who has supported continued assistance to Ukraine as we fight for freedom, democracy, and the values we all hold dear.
For us in Ukraine, continued US assistance helps to save human lives from Russian terror.…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 13, 2024
The legislation now goes to the House, which is likely doomed if one believes House GOP leadership. But there is talk of Democrats pushing a discharge petition which will allow the America last bill to come to the floor without GOP leadership approval.
Yep. No more primary vote for him from me.
Young. that one really hurts as i supported him in the Tea Party days for Congress. wish i knew then what i know now about him. really disappointing. he’s been a real bust.
John Kennnedy (LA)? Say it isn’t so !
He always sounds real.
I’m shocked.
Nor, with 34 trillion dollar debt and cities and states facing budget shortages because of onslaught of illegal immigrants, we can't afford to provided welfare for an entire country.
You're ridiculous.
He called Jan 6 an insurrection and said he would not support Trump in a primary. I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Well, at least we know who has their hand in the till and/or got caught in bed with little boys or girls. Eventually, your sins will be revealed.
True, but very likely 10% for the big guy.
The protests about this are ridiculous.
It has been shown difinitively that the Senate as presently constituted cannot produce a border-deal bill that the GOP should agree to. That’s just a fact. Wishing it were different will not make it so.
At this point any border deal in the Senate is a dead horse.
It is only natural then that the military aid requests would be standalone bill in the Senate, just as the House offered a standalone aid bill for Israel.
Grow up everyone.
Republicans are not conservatives.
A lot of people around here expect the scorpion to not act like a scorpion. And then they get angry about it.
Any politician not doing what is necessary is secure the border is aiding and abetting illegal immigration and drug and sex trafficking and is guilty of treason.
Wasting $61 billion dollars on a war in Ukraine that Ukraine can't win and has nothing to do with our national security is outrageous to anyone except those profiting from continuing the failed proxy war there.
The whole concept of the country is that it is a representative republic.
The Republicans that voted for this nonsense aren't representing their base. They are bought and paid by special interests and donors.
If Republicans refuse to represent their base, the Republican party must die and replaced by a party that will represent it. It's the only way to save the country as it was founded.
Surender leads to security.
Strange.
No surprises on the list of toilet scum.
Crapo and Risch...Idaho needs to wake the hades up!
“Grow up and accept the corruption and the fact that we live an oligarchy rather a representative republic!”
That is childish and nutty.
“Any politician not doing what is necessary is secure the border is aiding and abetting illegal immigration”
As I said, the elected politicians tried in their minds to do what is necessary and the only bill the Democrat majority would co-author was one the GOP, finally, would not, could not and did not support. They voted against that bad bill.
But the senate is not going to produce another border bill, even if you and all the GOP senators collectively stand on your heads and hold your breath.
Biden can fix the border without any border bill and with any border bill the Dim majority in the Senate will alone, it won’t make much difference.
What should the GOP in the Senate do now, just to satisfy you - stay absent with the threat that Schumer give them a bill that he never will do??
As I said, grow up.
“Wasting $61 billion dollars on a war in Ukraine that Ukraine can’t win”
You mean that Putin can’t win.
We fomented an illegal coup. We installed a puppet government that was hostile to Russia and ethnic Russian population. And, that set off a civil war. We trained, funded and armed the Ukrainian military with lethal weapons. Teased NATO membership for Ukraine. We running biolabs with deadly pathogens in them.
If Russia or China were doing anything like that in Mexico, WE would have, justifiably, invaded.
It's our meddling foreign policy and aggressively anti-Russian policies that are greatest threat to the security of citizens of this country and the world.
I knew Young would be in there. Indiana is stuck with him until 2028. Jerk.
Senators depend on their marge donors including military-industrial-complex.
We don’t agree all the time, but we agree on this.
The GOP is a dead man walking. No matter what happens in November, there will be a splintering. I think it could happen on both sides.
Actually, that is healthy for a representative form of giovernment.
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