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13 Republicans voted in favor of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill [Video]

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:


  • Thirteen House Republicans voted with House Democrats on Friday in favor of the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
  • Some GOP lawmakers are calling them “traitors” and “Democrats.”
  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene praised the six members of “The Squad” who rejected the bill.

Thirteen House Republicans broke ranks Friday and voted with House Democrats, passing the bipartisan infrastructure bill and drawing the ire of some of their colleagues.

Leading up to the vote, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy trashed the bill as “reckless, irresponsible spending” and urged his party not to vote for it.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia warned that any Republican who votes for the bill will “feel the anger of the GOP voter,” while Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina said: “Vote for this infrastructure bill and I will primary the hell out of you.”

And yet when the House voted on the bill, which easily passed in the Senate months ago, 13 Republicans voted in favor. The bill includes funding for roads, bridges, and public transit, as well as electric vehicles, clean energy, and high-speed broadband.

Biden hailed the bill’s passage as a “once-in-a-generation investment” that will “create millions of jobs, modernize our infrastructure” and “turn the climate crisis into an opportunity.”

But some Republicans who didn’t support the bill focused on their colleagues who did.

Greene labeled them “traitors” and tweeted out a list of their names along with their office numbers. She praised the six ‘Squad’ members for rejecting the bill.

Others went for a potentially more insulting label: Democrats.

“There’s a lot of Democrats who call themselves Republicans in the US House,” Cawthorn tweeted Saturday.

Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado said in a tweet “these fraudulent RINOs” should be penalized “for advertising themselves as Republicans but governing as Democrats.”

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“I can’t believe Republicans just gave the Democrats their socialism bill.” Rep Matt Gaetz of Florida said.

Rep. Chip Roy of Texas retweeted Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio, who said it was “painful” to watch his Republican colleagues deliver the votes to Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of the Republicans who voted for the bill, responded to Greene in a tweet, mocking her for referring to the infrastructure bill as communist: “Infrastructure=communism is a new one. Eisenhower’s interstate system should be torn up or else the commies will be able to conveniently drive!”

Rep. John Katko, another Republican who voted for the bill, released a statement on Twitter regarding his vote, calling it a “historic day” and praising the bill as “comprehensive infrastructure reform.”

Source: Business Insider

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8 Comments

8 Comments

  1. ltrail

    November 9, 2021 at 9:47 am

    Some Americans, like myself, no longer visit Facebook or Twitter, since Mid-January 2021. It would behoove crystalclearnews.com to provide the complete list of the 13 Republicans who voted with the Democrats for the final version of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. Even AOC had more sense.

    • Carlent

      November 9, 2021 at 9:53 am

      I too quit Facebook and Twitter as you did. Others should do the same instead of supporting these unAmerican media ‘giants’.

  2. Carlent

    November 9, 2021 at 9:50 am

    So glad to get this list. I’m sending it on hoping all who see it will work and give to get rid of these traitors.

  3. Judy

    November 9, 2021 at 10:13 am

    Its nice to see that even some Republicans vote in a way that supports and benefits the people of the United States.

    • Johnny Stewart Stewart

      November 9, 2021 at 10:21 am

      You are sick or a democrat.

  4. Johnny Stewart Stewart

    November 9, 2021 at 10:19 am

    They should be lealbled as democrat s

  5. Arthur Long

    November 9, 2021 at 2:10 pm

    13 used to be my lucky number. My one and only son was born on Friday the 13th.
    Having said that th13 representative of the people have just committed political suicide.
    They are traitors I guess put another nail in the coffin of the United States of America.
    Socialism is there goal and 8 years I get closer and closer.
    God Bless America

  6. bruce

    November 9, 2021 at 4:30 pm

    So about 450 Billion go towards actual infrastructure, if you consider climate stupidity infrastructure. So where does the other 750 Billion go? Guess who’s pocket? Not ours for sure.

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