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.”
did you see her dead eyed rage directed at a reporter who dared ask her why she did it https://youtu.be/0uQMNRpjQ-A
Her defiant reaction to the backlash was the worst part of it. She refuses to acknowledge people’s ire. She ends up making the case that she did it for Alaskans at the expense of the rest of her country. That she knew it was wrong but didn’t mind throwing everyone else under the bus.
Remember when republicans would harp on Grover Norquists Taxpayer protection pledge about swearing theyd never raise any taxes? Yeah way back in the old before times, like 2024. You never hear about that anymore.
I’d like to say that Alaska will vote her out but Alaska isn’t known for being progressive or sane. People come here to hoard broken cars & ripped tarps in peace.
People come here to hoard broken cars & ripped tarps
Not to mention the enormous, life-changing $1700 per year of oil money everybody gets.
As a former resident of Alaska I say that, yes that is true.
We’re at the point that I’m not sure if this is an onion.
*nibble nibble*
Edit several hours later: oh shit this is not an onion. FML.
Murkowski was literally primaried by a further right nut job, ran in the general as a write in, won and rejoined the Republicans. The only thing that will stop Alaskans electing her is death or retirement.
Well she hasn’t had an election since RCV started, so hopefully we get a better Senator
I don’t want all this responsibility, I just wanted respect and a nice house. Why are these problems mine to deal with?!
Have you seen the fucks cheering after it passed? Imagine knowing you’re fucking over 15+ million people just so you can get a tax break. Disgusting as fuck.
Did you see them laughing while voting down the Democrats’ amendments? Straight up sociopathic.
Alaska got an exemption from Medicaid Cuts. I imagine her rationale was that she was protecting her constituents. Fucked everyone else though.
The “I got mine. Fuck you” mindset is pretty on brand for Republicans
All she had to do was say ‘no,’ and she could have protected her constituents and 330,000,000 other Americans.
Yeah but her constituents still have to deal with all the other shit in the bill too so it’s not like she really did them any favors.
She cares more about her career than about all the people that will die as a result of her vote. Edit: Just like all the others who voted for this btw.
Not all of them, plenty of them voted for it because of the people it will harm as a result.
I guarantee she has a nice cushy lobbyist position lined up for Big Oil after pushing that bill through. She could give two shits about reelection with that fallback.
She’s a piece of shit.
Fuck that cunt!
These people shouldn’t be elected, they should be studied. In a lab.
Does anyone have a non biased article about what the bill actually does? Everything I’ve seen does not present any downsides to the bill, even going as far as to say it will be good for Americans.
I know for a fact there limitations on the tax on tips and OT
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
Then everything you’ve seen is biased. Have you tried Ground News? It will tell you the biases of sources.
