Hmmmmm?
Republicans mostly row together…
But these , who voted WITH Democrats, can say they helped secure money for projects in their district’s….
THAT is not enough for there party people who do NOT care….
And try to ride on objecting to ANYTHING Democrats do, even if it might actually helpful for their district….
(You KNOW those who voted against the bill WILL be trying to get the benefits from it , politically anyways…)
As we see (Impeachment and even judges confirmations)….
Some Republicans DO have balls to vote in their interest and NOT to make Trump types happy….
And some Republicans are predictably furious — with undersold questions about House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) future leadership of the party potentially in the offing….
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That we’d see such rhetoric from this particular, more extreme wing of the party isn’t all that surprising. Nor is it terribly surprising that at least some Republicans would vote for the bill. When it passed in the Senate, 19 Republicans voted for it, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). (Many saw it as an olive branch amid a Democratic push to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate; an obstruction tactic that doesn’t apply in the House.)
Friday’s GOP defections were even more significant than during the last Trump impeachment, when 10 Republicans voted to impeach the president — a historically high number. And the fact that on Friday they provided the votes necessary for passage makes this even more fraught…
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And that last one is a key point here. The bill included lots of popular projects and, in another era, probably would’ve gotten significantly more GOP votes. But we live in this era, in which delivering a political win for the other side — however popular the bill and however much your constituents might want it — is seen as apostasy. The demand in the GOP for such devotion to the party line and its election prospects is even greater than on the other side….