Turtle McConnell + 24 Others Crawl out of Cesspool After Voting for $1.2 Trillion Funding Bill

March 23, 2024

The Senate voted in the early hours of Saturday morning to pass a $1.2 trillion government funding bill, averting a government shutdown.

The Senate voted 74-24 to pass the "minibus" government spending bill. The bill passed through the House on Friday morning. As Breitbart News's Bradley Jaye reported, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) violated the Hastert Rule in passing the government funding bill despite the objections of the majority of House Republicans.

The minibus spending package contained funding bills for the Departments of Defense (DOD), Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), Homeland Security (DHS), and other parts of the federal government..................

"The bottom line is Democratic senators running for re-election are scared to vote on amendments," Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said. The Senate voted 51-47 to block an amendment to add the Laken Riley Act to the funding bill.

NEWSWEEK REPORTS:

The list of Republican who crossed the aisle to join the majority of their Democratic colleagues is as follows:

John Boozman of Arkansas
Katie Britt of Alabama
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Susan Collins of Maine
John Cornyn of Texas
Tom Cotton of Arkansas
Kevin Cramer of North Dakota
Joni Ernst of Iowa
Deb Fischer of Nebraska
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Chuck Grassley of Iowa
John Hoeven of North Dakota
Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Jerry Moran of Kansas
Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Mitt Romney of Utah
Mike Rounds of South Dakota
Dan Sullivan of Alaska
John Thune of South Dakota
Thom Tillis of North Carolina
Roger Wicker of Mississippi
Todd Young of Indiana