(PresidentialHill.com)- Last Thursday, the United States Senate passed a massive $1.5 trillion appropriations package that contained a substantial $13.6 billion emergency humanitarian package for Ukraine. The funding is designed to assist Ukraine in its fight against the invading Russian army and to help the civilians in Ukraine who have been displaced.
The package won the support of Republicans and Democrats alike, but a substantial number of Republicans stood in its way. Republican legislators who didn’t support the package – and for many reasons – faced a barrage of abuse from people online.
However, few stopped to consider why they voted “no” in the first place.
Republican Utah Governor Mitt Romney said that he didn’t support the legislation – not because he didn’t support the fight against the Russians but because he considered the process to be rushed.
Other Republican legislators expressed similar concerns.
Senator Marsha Blackburn had a good reason not to vote for the bill, too, citing concerns about rising inflation and the Democrats’ willingness to spend increasingly large sums of taxpayers’ money.
“Under the Democrats’ leadership, inflation has reached a 40-year high and gas is more expensive than it was in 2008, at the height of the financial crisis. With one vote, the left was trying to smuggle through more wasteful spending,” she said.
She has a point, right? The Democrats finally found a way to get Republicans to pass yet another spending package…all it took was appealing to emotion and including provisions to help Ukraine fight a war against the Russians.
Here is the list of Republicans who voted against the bill:
Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
John Boozman of Arkansas
Mike Braun of Indiana
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Tom Cotton of Arkansas
Kevin Cramer of North Dakota
Mike Crapo of Idaho
Ted Cruz of Texas
Steve Daines of Montana
Deb Fischer of Nebraska
Bill Hagerty of Tennessee
Josh Hawley of Missouri
John Hoeven of North Dakota
Ron Johnson of Wisconsin
John Kennedy of Louisiana
James Lankford of Oklahoma
Mike Lee of Utah
Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming
Roger Marshall of Kansas
Rand Paul of Kentucky
Jim Risch of Idaho
Mitt Romney of Utah
Mike Rounds of South Dakota
Marco Rubio of Florida
Ben Sasse of Nebraska
Rick Scott of Florida
Tim Scott of South Carolina
Dan Sullivan of Arkansas
Thom Tillis of North Carolina
Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
