What the senator claimed was a difficult decision was just a case of backroom deals and abandoned principles.
When the Republican-controlled Senate passed the disastrous megabill on Tuesday, the deciding vote came from Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The Alaskan lawmaker, who has long claimed to be a moderate, got over the finish line the bill for Donald Trump’s priorities, which would send billions of dollars to ICE, extend tax cuts for the wealthy, kick large abortion providers out of the Medicaid program, and knock millions of low-income people off their health insurance.
Murkowski cast this vote just a week after she suggested in a podcast interview that she’d consider becoming an independent and caucusing with Senate Democrats. She cast this vote, which could shutter nearly 200 Planned Parenthood clinics, after repeatedly painting herself as “pro choice.” She cast this vote after Planned Parenthood called the bill a “backdoor abortion ban” and said it could eliminate one in four abortion providers nationwide.
As Bolts Magazine Editor-in-Chief Daniel Nichanian noted after the vote: “The Senate’s small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she’s supporting will harm the nation’s 339 million other residents.”
None Bias link: https://www.congress.gov/index.php/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1
My biased take if you were looking for downsides: There’s a lot of downsides. ICE massive funding increase to rival the budget of a military in other countries, slashes to programs for impoverished children and their families, adding several trillion dollars to the deficit through uncontrolled spending. That’s just a fraction of this bill. Even some of the more hardcore republicans were having trouble taking a bite of this big beautiful shit sandwich. This may have ended several political careers which we will see during the mid terms. The dumbass in the original post is one of them which is why she’s pivoting for sympathy as an independent.
Buddy I am a moron I can’t understand politician jargon. You sent me a link to the actual bill. I was just hoping to find an article that breaks it down with both the pros and cons. I’ve tried the major news sources but read 0 drawbacks. Every liberal source just says it’s terrible for Americans. They don’t even explain anything about it other than it cuts SNAP and Medicaid.
I wouldn’t expect you to read 1000 pages. But you can pick highlights from news sources, do a control F on the highlighted point in the bill and see if what they are saying is true or just bias. Not being a smart ass, but making your own opinions without someone telling you what to think or feel is paramount to be being informed.
Those are drawbacks