Majority of GOP senators vote against helping Ukraine

[turbinetree]

By Josh Israel -March 11, 2022 10:46 AM

The bill passed the $1.5 trillion package on a 68-31 vote.

The Democratic-controlled Senate passed a bipartisan bill on Thursday night to fund the government for the next year and to provide billions in emergency aid to Ukraine. But more than three-fifths of the chamber's Republican members voted no.

The $1.5 trillion appropriations package came just in the nick of time; the federal government's current stopgap funding bill was set to expire at midnight on Friday. It consolidated a dozen Fiscal 2022 appropriations bills into one omnibus package, plus included $13.6 billion in emergency aid for Ukraine and NATO allies who face a similar threat from Vladimir Putin's Russian regime.

It passed 68 to 31, with all 50 Democrats and 18 Republicans voting in favor.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/rick-scott-senate-omnibus-bill-ukraine-aid/

You both voted to give a 1.5 trillion tax cut to those that don't need it and one of you ripped off Medicare for the tune of well over 300 million dollars and then you have the audacity to say that this bill will bankrupt the country.....do you think the people that voted for democratic government in Ukraine don't need our help.....oh yeah your guy tried blackmailed him and you basically were all for it, your impeachment vote says everything about you....

[ColinC]

1. I imagine they just voted against the budget more than Ukraine

Still stupid though

[Midnight Writer]

17. Especially stupid since the budget was going to pass anyway.

They just gave away their game, and gained nothing.

[ColinC]

19. Yep. N/t

[2naSalit]

29. I read earlier that...

They were holding up by trying to force some BS about the Mexican border being secured first before helping Ukraine.

F'ing assholes.

[ColinC]

38. ..

This will be used in the midterms, hopefully.

[2naSalit]

42. Same here.

[ForgedCrank]

37. I would be a lot

happier if these people would come up with an actual budget for once in how long?
It's their primary job, and they aren't doing it. None of them are. It's a really sore subject with me.

[ColinC]

39. Seriously.

They are very good at saying something doesn't work. But really shitty at proposing anything relevant.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

2. I'm shocked.. Shocked, I tell you...

Shocked that 18 Republiqans voted in favor, that is. That was 18 more than I would've predicted.

[lagomorph777]

3. Majority of GOP Senators Vote to Help Putin

Could have just as accurately worded it that way.

Put this in campaign ads.

[dchill]

4. I like it a LOT.

[onecaliberal]

5. Yup. This is what we need to do.

[rockfordfile]

7. They've been doing that. Russian puppet in the White House from 2017 to 2020.

[SheltieLover]

9. Yes!

[Budi]

23. 🇺🇦 ....K & R

[Cha]

6. That's on them.. may it

bite them in their Collective magat ASS.

[NQAS]

8. Maybe, just maybe, it's theater

Let's just say that the bill was going to pass. Both sides wanted it. Maybe even everyone, or at least a healthy majority of republicans. Maybe not, but let's work on the assumption that they wanted it passed. Well, the 18 R votes got i passed. But the remaining Rs could still vote no and maintain their credentials as fascists among their cult followers. Win Win. They're immune from criticism from the left because they don't give a fuck about the fascist labeling.

[CrispyQ]

10. Rollcall by vote

YEAs ---68
Baldwin (D-WI)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt (R-MO)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Capito (R-WV)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ernst (R-IA)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lujan (D-NM)
Manchin (D-WV)
Markey (D-MA)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Peters (D-MI)
Portman (R-OH)
Reed (D-RI)
Rosen (D-NV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sinema (D-AZ)
Smith (D-MN)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
Wyden (D-OR)
Young (R-IN)

NAYs ---31
Blackburn (R-TN)
Boozman (R-AR)
Braun (R-IN)
Burr (R-NC)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Daines (R-MT)
Fischer (R-NE)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hawley (R-MO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Romney (R-UT)
Rounds (R-SD)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Not Voting - 1
Inhofe (R-OK)

[gratuitous]

25. Even Sinema and Manchin voted "Aye"

Frame the "Nay" votes as votes for Putin and against Ukraine. Let the folks who voted "Nay" explain themselves. No point in us doing it for them.

[BigmanPigman]

27. Last night I couldn't find the list anywhere.

Thanks!

[KS Toronado]

30. Thanks, was just getting to make a list of the nays.

[Magoo48]

11. Fascist/authoritarian sympathizers, MAGAts, and Q-brains, for all intents and purposes, deceased.

[Magoo48]

12. Fascist/authoritarian sympathizers, MAGAts, and Q-brains, for all intents and purposes, deceased.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Who voted against it, here.....

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00078.htm

[Budi]

14. They voted NO to Human Rights & Assistance needed against terrorism & tyranny

Link to tweet

It's all about the OIL & GAS Profits.
Humanitarian needs are not in their considerations.

[turbinetree]

22. +1 K&R

[iscooterliberally]

15. The Oathbreakers strike again.

They're only in the senate to represent themselves.

[BlueIdaho]

16. Let the record show

That when world peace hung by a thread the Republican Party turned its back.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

18. GQPutin fascists

Hate democracy. They want to rule not govern.
They want to erase the laws so they can abuse and act out thier hatreds on people they don't like without consequences.

They need to be exiled from all positions of power and preferably be executed for thier crimes against America. Or at minimum jailed for life no parole and cut off from the outside world.
No calls or net. Mail that is checked for any money or other contraband ( they do that in prison)

That would be justice.

These fascists and the wealthy and the not so wealthy criminals supporting them are unfit to govern anything. They need all thier contacts ,money sources and crimes exposed and stopped.

[Brother Buzz]

20. Whatever it is, I'm against it

I don't know what they have to say
It makes no difference anyway
Whatever it is, I'm against it
No matter what it is or who commenced it
I'm against it

Your proposition may be good
But let's have one thing understood:
Whatever it is, I'm against it
And even when you've changed it or condensed it
I'm against it

I'm opposed to it
On general principles, I'm opposed to it

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. The GOP is the #PartyOfTreason

Link to tweet

[captain queeg]

24. I suppose those against have all taken lots of Russian money in their campaigns.

This would seem the most obvious. Except that 18 hadn’t? I doubt that but maybe they aren’t in as deep as the rest. Or more likely they see the majority in their districts overwhelmingly support Ukraine. I hope the truth comes out by next election

[Rebl2]

28. Likely

[agingdem]

26. Mitt Romney, the supposed voice of reason...

voted no...maybe now we Dems have learned our lesson?...when a Republican has a twinge of conscience we can't praise him enough for doing the right thing, people over party...and every time we gush rhapsodic, it always comes back to bite us on the ass..

[tavernier]

40. That surprised me too. N/T

[agingdem]

41. he voted no on eliminating the

filibuster regarding the voting rights bill and praised Sinema and Manchin on their "courageous" no vote...so his no vote on the Ukraine emergency aid bill was no surprise...

[70sEraVet]

31. Both of my Senators from TN voted no.

I had disliked Corker, but at least he had limits to how far down the cesspool he was willing to go.

[calimary]

32. Hang it around their miserable necks!

Make ‘em run on THAT in November!!!

DO NOT let ANYBODY forget!

[YoshidaYui]

33. They are on Russia's side

The Republican Party chock full of Traitors

[papa3times]

34. I really believe

these Republicans want to push support for the war criminal Putin back in his favor. They will oppose everything, and I mean everything Biden does, especially if it may help him politically like if this whole war falls apart and Putin declares victory and goes home. That's the last thing these fuckin' Republicans want. The interests of America and whole economy be damned!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. The Lincoln Project-31 GOP Senators voted against $13.6 billion for aid to Ukraine.

Link to tweet

[Irish_Dem]

36. Putin paid the GOP huge amounts of money and expects something in return.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

43. We are in front of the United States capitol playing our #PartyOfTreason ad,

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

44. Kick

[AntiFascist]

45. Are the Russian cryptocurrency GOP donations starting to kick in? n/t