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What the senator claimed was a difficult decision was just a case of backroom deals and abandoned principles.

When the Republican-controlled Senate passed the disastrous megabill on Tuesday, the deciding vote came from Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The Alaskan lawmaker, who has long claimed to be a moderate, got over the finish line the bill for Donald Trump’s priorities, which would send billions of dollars to ICE, extend tax cuts for the wealthy, kick large abortion providers out of the Medicaid program, and knock millions of low-income people off their health insurance.

Murkowski cast this vote just a week after she suggested in a podcast interview that she’d consider becoming an independent and caucusing with Senate Democrats. She cast this vote, which could shutter nearly 200 Planned Parenthood clinics, after repeatedly painting herself as “pro choice.” She cast this vote after Planned Parenthood called the bill a “backdoor abortion ban” and said it could eliminate one in four abortion providers nationwide.

As Bolts Magazine Editor-in-Chief Daniel Nichanian noted after the vote: “The Senate’s small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she’s supporting will harm the nation’s 339 million other residents.”

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[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Lisa fight

I’d like to say that Alaska will vote her out but Alaska isn’t known for being progressive or sane. People come here to hoard broken cars & ripped tarps in peace.

[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 2 points 24 minutes ago

Alaska got an exemption from Medicaid Cuts. I imagine her rationale was that she was protecting her constituents. Fucked everyone else though.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 2 points 28 minutes ago

Fuck that cunt!

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago

I guarantee she has a nice cushy lobbyist position lined up for Big Oil after pushing that bill through. She could give two shits about reelection with that fallback.

[–] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 hours ago

She’s a piece of shit.

[–] ReallyAngryNerd@europe.pub 48 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

She cares more about her career than about all the people that will die as a result of her vote. Edit: Just like all the others who voted for this btw.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 3 hours ago

Not all of them, plenty of them voted for it because of the people it will harm as a result.

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago

These people shouldn't be elected, they should be studied. In a lab.