Congressional Cowards is a weekly collection highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—irrespective of how disgraceful or lawless his actions.
Republicans know that the calls for President Donald Trump is making of them are unhealthy. However true to their cowardly kind, the overwhelming majority of GOP lawmakers refuse to comply with their conscience and vote in opposition to his damaging insurance policies, fearing that Trump will sic his MAGA loyalists in opposition to them and tank their careers.
This week, plenty of GOP senators voted for a invoice that claws again billions of funding for the Company for Public Broadcasting in addition to international help that Congress had already appropriated—though the GOP lawmakers admitted they’d reservations in regards to the laws.
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A number of Senate Republicans stated the Trump administration didn’t present them with sufficient data on what precisely they may lower from international help funding, which gave them pause, but not sufficient pause to vote in opposition to the invoice.
“When George W. Bush proposed Rescissions again in 1992, he listed particular packages that may obtain particular quantities of cuts. And it was a somewhat thick proposal. However members on either side of the aisle in each homes … had actual details about what packages can be focused and the place the cuts can be made and by what quantity. That’s not current within the proposal earlier than us tonight. And that troubles me,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) informed Fox Information’ Chad Pergram on Wednesday. Wicker ignored his considerations and voted for the cuts, although he stated he did so “with reservation.”
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) additionally stated the recissions package deal did not have sufficient specifics to know the precise funding streams the Trump administration wished to axe, but he stated he was voting for it anyway.
However he did make a toothless menace, saying on the Senate ground, “If we discover out that a few of these packages that we have communicated ought to be out of bounds, that advisors to the President resolve that they will lower anyway, then there will probably be a reckoning.”
I am certain the administration is shaking of their boots.
And Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who voted in opposition to advancing the recissions package deal to a vote earlier than the complete Senate as a result of he stated it didn’t have sufficient specifics from the Trump administration about what can be lower, rotated and voted for the cuts when it mattered most.
Even Senate Majority Chief John Thune (R-SD) stated the Trump administration has not been particular sufficient. But he shepherded the recissions package deal by means of and voted for it, saying their phrase was ok for him.
“I don’t disagree,” Thune informed reporters on Wednesday of the GOP members who stated they wanted extra specifics. “I believe that extra specificity can be a great factor, and definitely extra element when it comes to what precisely it’s that they intend to chop because of all this. However I believe for essentially the most half, most of our members consider there was sufficient element right here to make a great determination about whether or not or not we need to transfer ahead on the package deal.”
In the meantime, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who caved earlier this month and voted for the “One Large, Stunning Invoice” that may kick hundreds of thousands off of Medicaid regardless of saying Medicaid cuts have been a line within the sand for him, is now desperately making an attempt to reverse the injury he inflicted.
Hawley launched laws on Tuesday to roll again a few of these cuts. Hawley’s invoice would nix the adjustments to Medicaid funding that Republicans handed within the OBBB, and would add to a fund boosting rural hospitals which might be depending on Medicaid to outlive.
“President Trump has all the time stated we’ve got to guard Medicaid for working folks. Now could be the time to forestall any future cuts to Medicaid from going into impact,” Hawley stated in a information launch. “We must also enhance our assist for rural hospitals across the nation. Below the current reconciliation invoice, Missouri will see an additional $1 billion for hospitals over the subsequent 4 years. I need to see Medicaid reductions stopped and rural hospitals absolutely funded completely.”
If Hawley actually didn’t need these Medicaid cuts, he might have stopped them by voting in opposition to OBBB, however he was an excessive amount of of a coward to defy Expensive Chief.
Over on the Home facet, a bunch of GOP lawmakers who presupposed to care about youngster intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and releasing the knowledge the federal government had about his crimes voted this week to block the information from being launched. Republicans blocked the discharge as Trump rails in opposition to anybody who’s criticizing his administration for not releasing the supposed information, going so far as saying that he doesn’t rely anybody who continues to be speaking about Epstein as one among his followers.
For instance, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who after demanding the discharge of the Epstein information for years, voted on Tuesday to dam the information from launch.
Much more insane is that after voting in opposition to releasing the information, Boebert stated that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)—himself accused of intercourse trafficking minors—ought to be appointed as a particular counsel to unravel the Epstein case.
“We’d like a Particular Counsel and investigation into this if we aren’t offered data. I need solutions. Possibly Matt Gaetz can lead it,” Boebert informed fellow MAGA conspiracy theorist and Russian asset Benny Johnson.
You possibly can’t make this shit up.
Finally, every single day Republicans are desperate to show that they’d soar off a bridge if Expensive Chief requested them to.
In brief, they’re cowards.
