Colorado’s Democrat U.S. Senators voted in favor of the $1.6 trillion omnibus spending bill without a care in the world for all the pork spending it contained nor its impact on our $34 trillion debt.
The only saving grace is that Bennet’s bill to turn back the clocks to the 1970s welfare state was again tossed into the trash heap by his colleagues on both sides of the political aisle.
Three cheers for bipartisanship, and the demise of the co-called child tax credit.
GOP leaders sent a lump of coal to America’s children this year — they refused to even discuss a deal for kids and businesses.
I will continue to oppose cutting taxes for corporations without passing an expanded Child Tax Credit. pic.twitter.com/yNyV0n8S6G
— Michael Bennet (@SenatorBennet) December 20, 2022
The omnibus bill included 7,500 earmarks — the code word for wasteful, pork spending — with more than 200 earmarks earmarked for Colorado by the Democrat delegation.
Topping that list — $4 million to buy a Denver hotel for the homeless.
In addition to Bennet’s repeated failure to get welfare payout to some families with children, his proposed reforms for H-2A farm worker also went nowhere this year.
The omnibus bill passed the Senate with 68 in favor, 29 opposed.
Here is a full list of the 18 Republican senators who voted in favor of the bill:
- Roy Blunt (Missouri)
- John Boozman (Arkansas)
- Shelley Capito (West Virginia)
- Susan Collins (Maine)
- John Cornyn (Texas)
- Tom Cotton (Arkansas)
- Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)
- Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma)
- Mitch McConnell (Kentucky)
- Jerry Moran (Kansas)
- Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
- Rob Portman (Ohio)
- Mitt Romney (Utah)
- Mike Rounds (South Dakota)
- Richard Shelby (Alabama)
- John Thune (South Dakota)
- Roger Wicker (Mississippi)
- Todd Young (Indiana)