Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who voiced support for the measure, were absent for the vote.
I guess this bill wasn't that important.
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Wasn't Mitch McConnell complaining about the tariffs just the other day, having spent decades making sure the USA gets to this point? And then when he has the chance to stop them he doesn't show up? What a guy.
Which just means they want the tariffs to happen. Perhaps a billionaire promised to buy him New Orleans or something?
Yeah that's super sketchy.
Would have died, at best, on the president’s desk anyway.
Fine. Make him veto it
And then burn him at the stake (figuratively, of course, for legal reasons)
In Minecraft
"Bipartisan"
3 out of 51? Bipartisan? I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Democrats really need to plan the votes around the times of day when Moscow Mitch isn’t in the middle of a reboot.
The Majority Leader decides when votes happen, so it was definitely planned for when the votes weren’t there. Either that or McConnell intentionally didn’t show up so he can keep claiming he’s against it while not actually allowing anything to get done.
Democrats don't get to decide when the votes are.
Let them go on the record as supporting this madness, and let them go on the record often.
Pretty fucking inaccurate to call it “bipartisan” when all of three senators from the overt fascism party voted for it.
I fucking hate how imbecilic and vapidly breathless our media apparatuses are.