The Senate today passed the $1 Trillion dollar infrastructure bill loaded with Democrat agenda items and Republicans helped them do it:
AP – With a robust vote after weeks of fits and starts, the Senate approved a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan on Tuesday, a rare coalition of Democrats and Republicans joining to overcome skeptics and deliver a cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s agenda.
The 69-30 tally provides momentum for this first phase of Biden’s “Build Back Better” priorities, now headed to the House. A sizable number of lawmakers showed they were willing to set aside partisan pressures, eager to send billions to their states for rebuilding roads, broadband internet, water pipes and the public works systems that underpin much of American life.
Not a single Democrat voted against the bill and plenty of Republicans voted with them:
Roy Blunt
Richard Burr
Shelley Moore Capito
Bill Cassidy
Susan Collins
Kevin Cramer
Mike Crapo
Deb Fischer
Lindsey Graham
Chuck Grassley
John Hoeven
Mitch McConnell
Lisa Murkowski
Rob Portman
James E. Risch
Mitt Romney
Dan Sullivan
Thom Tillis
Roger F. Wicker
Here’s the list of the Republicans who voted against the bill:
Here’s what Senator Kennedy had to say about the bill last night:
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) blasted the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill as chock-full of “stupid stuff” Monday night, hours ahead of a final Senate vote on passage.
Kennedy told Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” that he was likely to vote “yes” on the package until he received a copy of the 2,700-page measure.
“I realized pretty quickly that if you look up ‘stupid stuff’ in the dictionary, there’s a picture of this bill,” said Kennedy. “They told us it was a real infrastructure bill. It’s not; only 23 percent of the bill is real infrastructure, the rest is Green New Deal and welfare. They told us the bill was paid for; it isn’t, we’re gonna have to borrow maybe up to $400 billion to pay for it. They told us there were no tax increases. There are; my state’s gonna have to pay $1.3 billion in new taxes on our petrochemical industry.
“They told us … the Democrats were really wary of this bill and that if we passed this bill, it would make it harder for them to pass their $5 trillion tax and spending binge, reconciliation bill,” Kennedy added. “Well, if that’s true, how come every Democrat voted for this infrastructure bill? And finally, they told us that it’s not going to add to inflation, but it will.”
After an initial false start last month, the $1 trillion bill has cleared every test vote with no fewer than 66 votes, setting the stage for a simple majority vote to ensure final passage.
“I don’t know why it passed with 60-plus votes,” Kennedy told host Laura Ingraham, before adding: “I don’t know, day drinking, maybe?”
Day drinking, LOL! Mitch McConnell does slur his words sometimes…