Timed to coincide with the Christmas holiday — when they thought we weren’t looking — the U.S. Senate voted to pass a $1.7 trillion, 4,155-page “omnibus” spending bill last Thursday afternoon with only a day remaining before a deadline they threatened could partially shut down the government. Among the costly absurdities, the bill includes $3.6 million funding for a Michelle Obama walking trail in Georgia.
A shutdown would curtail the frenzied spending that would bring a sense of reality to the elected members who view struggling taxpayers as a never ending source of funding.
The bill also includes $45 billion in aid for Ukraine, in addition to the $66 billion of taxpayers’ money U.S. lawmakers have already approved for Ukraine as we fund a proxy war with Russia, that could ultimately have dire consequences for America. China is engaging in military posturing over portions of the defense budget that it views as provocatively funding Taiwan.
Eighteen Republicans joined all 48 Democrats and two independents in passing the bill, which must still pass through the House before Biden signs it into law. The final roll call vote with all senators listed by name was 68-29. Both of Arizona’s leftwing senators voted in favor of the spending debacle. Kirsten Sinema, who created an uproar as she recently reregistered as an “Independent,“ is still listed as a democrat. There’s actually no difference as Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vermont Ind.) and then-Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif. Dem.) proved. Three Republican senators did not vote: Dr. John Barrasso (R-WY – since 2007); Richard Burr (R-NC – since 2005) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND – since 2005), with no reasons given for their inaction on this outrageous spending bill.
The allocated earmarked items in the dem’s spending package include a minimum of $575 million towards “family planning” and “reproductive health,” in areas where population growth “threatens biodiversity;” the creation of a new “pandemic czar;” $1.2 million for centers that support LGBTQ students at San Diego Community College District; $3 million towards the New York Historical Society’s “American LGBTQ+ Museum Partnership Project” and $750,000 to the Translatin@Coalition, which promotes “Trans, Gender-non-conforming and Intersex” Hispanics, who now want to be referred to as Latinos. A fashion show it sponsored was funded and endorsed by: Gilead, Keck Medicine of UCLA, SoCalGas, Kaiser Permanente, Walmart, Bank of America, Flux, Glamazon, LOUD, Amazon, and the City of West Hollywood.
Americans need to clean house. Democrats who vote to fund these outrageous programs with our taxes, need to be primaried and ousted. We must also stop doing business with radical companies that undermine our values. The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft published this exposé in 2020. It has only worsened since then.