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Vote Alert: Pass a $19 billion spending bill without funding for the border crisis
June 04, 2019
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.
To see how your elected officials stack up or other votes that compose the Liberty Score, view our full scorecard here.
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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