Allan Smith, NBC News / Comcast
Posted on 08/11/2021 6:48:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former President Donald Trump's calls to thwart the centerpiece of President Joe Biden's agenda went unheeded by 19 Senate Republicans, who joined all 50 Democratic-voting senators Tuesday to pass a $550 billion infrastructure package.
The "yes" votes amounted to one of the more significant rebukes of Trump, who maintains a strong grip on the party's base and sought unsuccessfully to pass an infrastructure deal of his own when he was in office.
In recent weeks, Trump criticized Republicans for supporting the effort and threatened them with possible primary challengers. Although he didn't make clear what specifically in the bill he disliked, he framed opposition to it in terms of limiting future Democratic legislation.
Trump's White House repeatedly tried to stage "infrastructure week" to focus the administration's message on the need for an infrastructure bill. But after Trump repeatedly derailed such efforts by blasting controversial tweets that absorbed the media's attention, "infrastructure week" became a running joke in Washington about his lack of message discipline.
At the same time, the package has been viewed skeptically by some progressive House Democrats who say it doesn't go far enough. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has said the bill won't get a vote in the House until the Senate passes a separate, larger package of measures to bolster the social safety net.
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Allan Smith, NBC News / Comcast
No doubt the ones that backed it deliberately thought: “We’re gonna back this to show evil Trump that we don’t care about him or his merry band of insurrectionists.” Sure they did allan. Or just because they’re fidiots.
Their kickbacks will tell the tales.................
Most likely f them are retiring and this porkfest assures their nest egg, the others will be replaced. McConnell belongs to the Chinese and he will die before his term is up.
They voted for purely out of spite . Hopefully they are all lose their primaries or failing that they all die
Many in the senate just went cliff diving with no parachute.
So in the end, it’s Trump’s fault? Why not, the surfs will believe anything.
NBC. Need I say more?
Americans mask:
how is this a surprise?
Half of the hated, despised, voter-backstabbing GOP
enables children and babies to be stolen, raped and eaten.
The GOP needs decimation or extinction.
The GOP Senators all own, or their families own NGOs which make lots of cash from these porkulus bills. Everybody wins except those who can’t play the game, around 300+ million or so.
Crap. Most OF them. Darned autocorrects
When you start talking about taxpayer funds (IN THE BILLIONS) used with next to NO legitimate accountabilityā¦ There will be PLENTY of greedy ba*&ards, of ALL kinds in DC, who will be standing around with their hand out and stuffing their pockets!! (Some of them will score even IF all they do is STFU about what they see and hear.)
It’s why they pursue political office in the first place. THIS is their dream come true.
Serfs up!
Serfs up!
Absolutely, They hate the American Taxpayer and are willing to sell their souls and destroy the future of American Children and Grandchildren.
There IS A special PLACE IN Hell FOR ALL OF THEM!
Our politicians have NO interest in ārepresentingā us.
They are all dead set on keeping us in our place and ruling OVER us.
We cannot vote our way out of this anymore, folks..
Six-Year Terms, folks.
Trump isn’t
He once held the reins but allowed them to be taken from him without a fight
Assistant Democrats will always assist the Democrats while they blocked Trump at every turn.
Just showing how deep and dirty the swamp is. Its amazing that Trump got anything done.
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