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Vote Alert: Pass a $19 billion spending bill without funding for the border crisis

Vote Alert: Pass a $19 billion spending bill without funding for the border crisis

This vote was to pass a $19 billion disaster aid bill, including a bailout for Puerto Rico, without appropriating funds to address the border crisis.

The national debt is over $22 trillion and rising. Recognizing this fact, President Trump proposed a budget to Congress that called for lower levels of spending. Also acknowledging that there is an unprecedented humanitarian and national security crisis at the country’s southern border, the White House requested an additional $4.3 billion from Congress to make the border safe and save lives. Congress ignored these requests.

Despite passing $117.5 billion in disaster spending in 2017, and after already bailing out Puerto Rico once, Democrats demanded even more pork spending and a new bailout, and Republicans in Congress agreed. This new spending comes as the relevant federal agencies and departments funded under this  bill have record high budgets. Spending is now 13.7 percent higher than under President Obama’s final year in office. Under the guise of “disaster relief,” this bill spends money on the wasteful Community Development Block Grant program, a program President Trump previously asked Congress to eliminate. The bill also throws another $3 billion in handouts to farmers after Congress passed a $900 billion farm bill last December. There are no reforms for long-term spending in the legislative text of this fiscally irresponsible disaster of a bill.

The Senate voted to pass the disaster bill on May 23, 2019, at 4:15 p.m. in a roll call vote of 85 – 8.

The House of Representatives agreed to the Senate version of the bill on June 3, 2019, at 7:01 p.m. in a roll call vote of 354 – 85.

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CR position: NO


U.S. Senate

YEAs — 85

Baldwin (D-WI)

Barrasso (R-WY)

Bennet (D-CO)

Blumenthal (D-CT)

Blunt (R-MO)

Booker (D-NJ)

Boozman (R-AR)

Brown (D-OH)

Burr (R-NC)

Cantwell (D-WA)

Cardin (D-MD)

Carper (D-DE)

Casey (D-PA)

Cassidy (R-LA)

Collins (R-ME)

Coons (D-DE)

Cornyn (R-TX)

Cortez Masto (D-NV)

Cotton (R-AR)

Cramer (R-ND)

Cruz (R-TX)

Daines (R-MT)

Duckworth (D-IL)

Ernst (R-IA)

Feinstein (D-CA)

Fischer (R-NE)

Gardner (R-CO)

Gillibrand (D-NY)

Graham (R-SC)

Grassley (R-IA)

Harris (D-CA)

Hassan (D-NH)

Hawley (R-MO)

Heinrich (D-NM)

Hirono (D-HI)

Hoeven (R-ND)

Hyde-Smith (R-MS)

Inhofe (R-OK)

Isakson (R-GA)

Johnson (R-WI)

Jones (D-AL)

Kaine (D-VA)

Kennedy (R-LA)

King (I-ME)

Klobuchar (D-MN)

Lankford (R-OK)

Leahy (D-VT)

Manchin (D-WV)

Markey (D-MA)

McConnell (R-KY)

Menendez (D-NJ)

Merkley (D-OR)

Murkowski (R-AK)

Murphy (D-CT)

Murray (D-WA)

Perdue (R-GA)

Peters (D-MI)

Portman (R-OH)

Reed (D-RI)

Roberts (R-KS)

Rosen (D-NV)

Rubio (R-FL)

Sanders (I-VT)

Sasse (R-NE)

Schatz (D-HI)

Schumer (D-NY)

Scott (R-FL)

Scott (R-SC)

Shaheen (D-NH)

Shelby (R-AL)

Sinema (D-AZ)

Smith (D-MN)

Stabenow (D-MI)

Sullivan (R-AK)

Tester (D-MT)

Thune (R-SD)

Tillis (R-NC)

Udall (D-NM)

Van Hollen (D-MD)

Warner (D-VA)

Warren (D-MA)

Whitehouse (D-RI)

Wicker (R-MS)

Wyden (D-OR)

Young (R-IN)

NAYs — 8

Blackburn (R-TN)

Braun (R-IN)

Crapo (R-ID)

Lee (R-UT)

McSally (R-AZ)

Paul (R-KY)

Risch (R-ID)

Romney (R-UT)

Not Voting — 7

Alexander (R-TN)

Capito (R-WV)

Durbin (D-IL)

Enzi (R-WY)

Moran (R-KS)

Rounds (R-SD)

Toomey (R-PA)


U.S. House of Representatives*

*Minority party (Republicans) in italics.

YEAs — 354

Adams

Aderholt

Aguilar

Allen

Allred

Amodei

Armstrong

Arrington

Axne

Babin

Bacon

Baird

Balderson

Barragán

Bass

Bera

Bilirakis

Bishop (GA)

Bishop (UT)

Blumenauer

Blunt Rochester

Bonamici

Bost

Boyle, Brendan F.

Brady

Brindisi

Brooks (IN)

Brown (MD)

Brownley (CA)

Buchanan

Bucshon

Burgess

Bustos

Butterfield

Byrne

Calvert

Carbajal

Carson (IN)

Carter (GA)

Carter (TX)

Cartwright

Case

Casten (IL)

Castor (FL)

Castro (TX)

Cheney

Chu, Judy

Cicilline

Cisneros

Clark (MA)

Clarke (NY)

Clay

Cleaver

Clyburn

Cohen

Cole

Collins (GA)

Collins (NY)

Conaway

Connolly

Cook

Cooper

Correa

Costa

Courtney

Cox (CA)

Craig

Crawford

Crenshaw

Crist

Crow

Cuellar

Cummings

Cunningham

Davids (KS)

Davis (CA)

Davis, Danny K.

Davis, Rodney

Dean

DeFazio

DeGette

DeLauro

DelBene

Delgado

Demings

DeSaulnier

Deutch

Diaz-Balart

Dingell

Doggett

Doyle, Michael F.

Duffy

Dunn

Engel

Escobar

Eshoo

Espaillat

Evans

Ferguson

Finkenauer

Fitzpatrick

Fleischmann

Fletcher

Flores

Fortenberry

Foster

Frankel

Fudge

Gabbard

Gaetz

Gallego

Garamendi

García (IL)

Garcia (TX)

Gibbs

Gohmert

Golden

Gomez

Gonzalez (OH)

Gonzalez (TX)

Gottheimer

Granger

Graves (GA)

Graves (LA)

Graves (MO)

Green (TX)

Griffith

Grijalva

Guthrie

Haaland

Hagedorn

Harder (CA)

Hartzler

Hayes

Heck

Hern, Kevin

Hice (GA)

Higgins (NY)

Hill (AR)

Hill (CA)

Himes

Holding

Horn, Kendra S.

Horsford

Houlahan

Hoyer

Hudson

Huffman

Hurd (TX)

Jackson Lee

Jayapal

Jeffries

Johnson (GA)

Johnson (SD)

Johnson (TX)

Joyce (OH)

Kaptur

Katko

Keating

Kelly (IL)

Kelly (MS)

Kelly (PA)

Kennedy

Khanna

Kildee

Kilmer

Kim

Kind

King (IA)

King (NY)

Kinzinger

Kirkpatrick

Krishnamoorthi

Kuster (NH)

Kustoff (TN)

LaMalfa

Lamb

Langevin

Larsen (WA)

Larson (CT)

Latta

Lawrence

Lawson (FL)

Lee (CA)

Lee (NV)

Levin (CA)

Levin (MI)

Lewis

Lieu, Ted

Lipinski

Loebsack

Lofgren

Long

Loudermilk

Lowenthal

Lowey

Lucas

Luetkemeyer

Luján

Luria

Lynch

Malinowski

Maloney, Carolyn B.

Maloney, Sean

Marshall

Mast

McAdams

McBath

McCarthy

McCaul

McCollum

McEachin

McGovern

McHenry

McKinley

McNerney

Meeks

Meng

Meuser

Miller

Mitchell

Moolenaar

Moore

Morelle

Moulton

Mucarsel-Powell

Mullin

Murphy

Nadler

Napolitano

Neal

Neguse

Newhouse

Norcross

Nunes

O'Halleran

Ocasio-Cortez

Olson

Palazzo

Pallone

Panetta

Pappas

Pascrell

Payne

Pence

Perlmutter

Peters

Peterson

Phillips

Pingree

Porter

Posey

Pressley

Price (NC)

Quigley

Raskin

Reed

Reschenthaler

Rice (NY)

Rice (SC)

Richmond

Riggleman

Roby

Rodgers (WA)

Roe, David P.

Rogers (AL)

Rogers (KY)

Rose (NY)

Rose, John W.

Rouda

Rouzer

Roybal-Allard

Ruiz

Ruppersberger

Rush

Rutherford

Ryan

Sánchez

Sarbanes

Scalise

Scanlon

Schakowsky

Schiff

Schrader

Schrier

Scott (VA)

Scott, Austin

Scott, David

Serrano

Sewell (AL)

Shalala

Sherrill

Shimkus

Simpson

Sires

Slotkin

Smith (MO)

Smith (NE)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (WA)

Smucker

Soto

Spanberger

Spano

Stanton

Stauber

Stefanik

Stevens

Suozzi

Takano

Thompson (CA)

Thompson (MS)

Thompson (PA)

Thornberry

Tipton

Titus

Tlaib

Tonko

Torres (CA)

Torres Small (NM)

Trahan

Trone

Turner

Underwood

Upton

Van Drew

Vargas

Veasey

Vela

Velázquez

Visclosky

Wagner

Walberg

Walden

Walorski

Waltz

Wasserman Schultz

Waters

Watkins

Watson Coleman

Weber (TX)

Webster (FL)

Welch

Westerman

Wexton

Wild

Williams

Wilson (SC)

Womack

Woodall

Yarmuth

Yoho

Young

Zeldin

 NAYs — 58

Amash

Banks

Barr

Bergman

Biggs

Brooks (AL)

Buck

Budd

Burchett

Chabot

Cline

Cloud

Comer

Curtis

Davidson (OH)

DesJarlais

Duncan

Emmer

Estes

Foxx (NC)

Fulcher

Gallagher

Gianforte

Gooden

Gosar

Grothman

Harris

Higgins (LA)

Hollingsworth

Huizenga

Hunter

Johnson (LA)

Jordan

Joyce (PA)

LaHood

Lamborn

Lesko

Massie

McClintock

Meadows

Mooney (WV)

Norman

Palmer

Perry

Ratcliffe

Rooney (FL)

Roy

Schweikert

Sensenbrenner

Steil

Steube

Stewart

Taylor

Timmons

Walker

Wenstrup

Wittman

Wright

Not Voting — 19

Abraham

Beatty

Beyer

Cárdenas

Green (TN)

Guest

Hastings

Herrera Beutler

Johnson (OH)

Marchant

Matsui

Omar

Pocan

Schneider

Sherman

Speier

Stivers

Swalwell (CA)

Wilson (FL)

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