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Vote Alert: Suspend the debt ceiling, cancel the budget caps, and increase spending by $321 billion
August 01, 2019
With this vote on the Bipartisan Budget Act, Congress undid the only successful limitation on government spending of the last decade, and it was undone under a Republican president with a GOP Senate majority.
This budget deal, negotiated between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., cancels the budget caps for the final two years of the Budget Control Act and increases spending by $321 billion over two years. Congress suspended the debt ceiling until 2021, guaranteeing that the United States will accrue at least $2 trillion in additional debt during that time, and likely more. While proponents of the deal argue that there are $77.4 billion in spending offsets, the fact is most of those “offsets” are just a paper agreement that Congress will agree to spend less on entitlement programs in 10 years. Congress never agrees to spend less on entitlement programs.
Lawmakers on both sides celebrated these irresponsible increases in spending because the bill did not include so-called “poison pill” amendments. In plain English, that means this spending deal did not add additional funding for a border wall, did not defund Planned Parenthood, and did not include any sort of conservative policy, all the while funding Democratic Party priorities like welfare and Obamacare without any reforms to decrease government spending.
This vote was the last debt limit vote of President Trump’s first term in office. This was the last chance of Trump’s first term to fight for conservative budget priorities and GOP leadership, and most Republicans in Congress did not want to have that fight.
The House of Representatives passed the Bipartisan Budget Act on July 25, 2019 at 5:10 p.m. ET in a roll call vote of 284 – 149.
The Senate passed the Bipartisan Budget Act on August 1, 2019 at 11:54 a.m. ET in a roll call vote of 67 – 28.
CR Position: NO
U.S. House of Representatives*
*Minority party (Republicans) in italics
YEAs — 284
Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allred Axne Babin Bacon Barragán Bass Beatty Bera Bergman Beyer Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (UT) Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bost Boyle, Brendan F. Brady Brooks (IN) Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Bustos Butterfield Calvert Carbajal Cárdenas Carson (IN) 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 Correa Costa Courtney Cox (CA) Craig Crist Crow Cuellar Cummings 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. Dunn Engel Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Ferguson Finkenauer Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fletcher Fortenberry Foster Frankel Fudge Gabbard Gallego | Garamendi García (IL) Garcia (TX) Golden Gomez Gonzalez (TX) Gottheimer Granger Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Guthrie Haaland Hartzler Hastings Hayes Heck Higgins (NY) Hill (AR) Hill (CA) Himes Horn, Kendra S. Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Huffman Hurd (TX) Jackson Lee Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (TX) Joyce (OH) Kaptur Katko Keating Kelly (IL) Kennedy Khanna Kildee Kilmer Kim King (NY) Kinzinger Kirkpatrick Krishnamoorthi Kuster (NH) Kustoff (TN) Lamb Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawrence Lawson (FL) Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Levin (CA) Levin (MI) Lewis Lieu, Ted Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Luján Luria Lynch Malinowski Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Matsui McBath McCarthy McCaul McCollum McEachin McGovern McHenry McNerney Meeks Meng Meuser Miller Moore Morelle Moulton Mucarsel-Powell Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Norcross Nunes | O'Halleran Ocasio-Cortez Palazzo Pallone Panetta Pappas Pascrell Payne Pelosi Pence Perlmutter Phillips Pingree Pocan Porter Price (NC) Quigley Raskin Reschenthaler Richmond Roby Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose (NY) Rouda Roybal-Allard Ruiz Ruppersberger Rush Rutherford Ryan Sánchez Sarbanes Scalise Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Schneider Schrier Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell (AL) Shalala Sherman Sherrill Simpson Sires Slotkin Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Soto Speier Stanton Stauber Stefanik Stevens Stewart Suozzi Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Thornberry Titus Tlaib Tonko Torres (CA) Torres Small (NM) Trahan Trone Turner Underwood Upton Van Drew Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Walden Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Welch Wexton Wild Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) Womack Woodall Yarmuth Young |
NAYs — 149
Abraham Allen Amash Amodei Armstrong Arrington Baird Balderson Banks Barr Biggs Blumenauer Brindisi Brooks (AL) Buchanan Buck Bucshon Budd Burchett Burgess Byrne Carter (GA) Chabot Cline Cloud Comer Cooper Crawford Crenshaw Cunningham Curtis Davidson (OH) DesJarlais Duffy Duncan Emmer Estes Flores Foxx (NC) Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Gianforte Gibbs Gohmert Gonzalez (OH) Gooden Gosar Graves (GA) Graves (LA) | Graves (MO) Green (TN) Griffith Grothman Guest Hagedorn Harder (CA) Harris Hern, Kevin Herrera Beutler Hice (GA) Higgins (LA) Holding Hollingsworth Hudson Huizenga Hunter Johnson (LA) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (PA) Keller Kelly (MS) Kelly (PA) Kind King (IA) LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Latta Lesko Lipinski Long Loudermilk Marchant Marshall Massie Mast McAdams McClintock McKinley Meadows Mitchell Moolenaar Mooney (WV) Mullin Murphy Newhouse Norman Olson | Omar Palmer Perry Peters Peterson Posey Pressley Ratcliffe Reed Rice (NY) Rice (SC) Riggleman Rodgers (WA) Roe, David P. Rooney (FL) Rose, John W. Rouzer Roy Schrader Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Shimkus Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smucker Spanberger Spano Steil Steube Stivers Taylor Timmons Tipton Wagner Walberg Walker Walorski Waltz Watkins Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams Wittman Wright Yoho Zeldin |
*Minority party (Republicans) in italics
U.S. Senate
YEAs — 67
Alexander (R-TN)
Baldwin (D-WI)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Brown (D-OH)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Capito (R-WV)
Cardin (D-MD)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ernst (R-IA)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hirono (D-HI)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Jones (D-AL)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Leahy (D-VT)
Markey (D-MA)
McConnell (R-KY)
McSally (R-AZ)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Moran (R-KS)
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)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sinema (D-AZ)
Smith (D-MN)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Udall (D-NM)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warner (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
Wyden (D-OR)
Young (R-IN)
NAYs — 28
Bennet (D-CO)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Braun (R-IN)
Carper (D-DE)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cruz (R-TX)
Daines (R-MT)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Gardner (R-CO)
Hawley (R-MO)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Manchin (D-WV)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Romney (R-UT)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Tester (D-MT)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Not Voting - 5
Booker (D-NJ)
Harris (D-CA)
Isakson (R-GA)
Sanders (I-VT)
Warren (D-MA)
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