The Senate passed Trump’s request to rescind $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting funding early Thursday, culminating an hours-long “vote-a-rama” and sending it back to the House ahead of a Friday deadline.
In a 51-48 vote, Republicans Susan Collins, of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, joined Democrats in opposing the package.
JD Vance, who cast two tie-breaking votes Tuesday for the measure to clear procedural hurdles, was not needed for final passage. Democratic Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota was hospitalized and missed the vote.
Both chambers need to approve the request before it expires at the end of the week, or the funds will have to be spent as lawmakers previously intended.
Why? Because FUCK YOU is why. Even if foreign aid has always been recognized as an essential form of soft power, a whole lot of dumb-dumbs in this country think their taxes are being drained to help brown people somewhere, so fuck that.
Same for PBS and NPR. Supposedly so “woke”, so…fuck that noise. If your local station goes away because of it, and you are in some poor area that only had a few channels, no cable and no high speed internet - well, fuck it, this is about “owning the libs”.
It’s all about racism, vengeance and spite with these people.
Why no filibuster?
Because we have no opposition party
Vichy Dems
That’s a great question…
