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Sen. Tommy Tuberville says he’ll oppose the commission, which is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, ‘until they make it bipartisan.’ ....
In the end, not a single congressional Republican voted for Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. Some Republican lawmakers see Trump’s departure from the White House as a chance to break with certain policies that were broadly unpopular in the Senate GOP conference. Among those were Trump’s approach to trade and foreign policy. Republican lawmakers haven’t yet decided whether they want to renounce Trump’s trade and tariff practices, and Biden is keeping them in place for now. ADVERTISEMENT On foreign policy, there hasn’t been much pushback from the Senate GOP conference over Biden’s decision to mend fences with NATO allies. The president strongly reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to NATO in February by declaring: “An attack on one is an attack on all. That is our unshakeable vow.” ....
Senate Republicans have reportedly sent around a memo calling President Biden Politico reports that the memo sent by the Senate Republican Conference to all GOP communications staffs blasts the White House for referring to the infrastructure proposal as a “jobs plan” and instead called it a “partisan plan to kill jobs and create slush funds on the taxpayer dime.” “Biden’s Partisan, Job-Crushing Slush Fund spends just 5% of the total $2.7 trillion on roads and bridges,” the lawmakers said in their memo, according to Politico. ADVERTISEMENT “The rest is: a wish list of non-infrastructure spending on failed Obama policies; a dog’s breakfast of slush funds for Democrats’ pet projects without any accountability or transparency; expensive green energy mandates on Americans; a ban on the right to work; and a flurry of tax hikes that will to drive companies out of the U.S. and give China and Russia a say in the United States’ tax laws. As a result, ....
Roy Blunt on Monday became the fifth Republican senator to announce that he's calling it quits. The 71-year-old Missouri lawmaker said in a tweeted video that he will. ....