Minnesota 'moderates' vote to continue starving troops, children

Year-after-year, Amy Klobuchar proclaims herself as a moderate and bipartisan senator. Tina Smith doesn't pretend to be a bipartisan legislator, though she's willing to accept the title of moderate. Last night, Klobuchar and Smith voted against reopening the federal government. With that vote, they both voted against funding the SNAP program, aka the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Further, they voted to not fund law enforcement (think ICE and Border Patrol), the military and agencies like the DEA and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Isn't it nice to know that Sen. Klobuchar and Sen. Smith care so much about starving children and our military?

The article reports "U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, both Democrats, voted against a bipartisan measure to reopen the federal government. Advanced by the U.S. Senate in a 60-40 vote last night, the proposal is expected to end the longest government shutdown in history."

The article continues:

Since Oct. 1, the federal government has been shut down because the U.S. Senate failed to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government.

That resolution, which contained no policy changes and funded the government at current levels, needed 60 votes in the Senate to overcome the chamber’s filibuster rule and tee it up for final passage. However, Republicans only have 53 votes in the Senate and needed Democrat assistance to advance the continuing resolution.

Prior to Sunday, Senate Democrats voted against advancing the GOP-backed resolution 14 times and said they would not reopen the government until Republicans agreed to extend Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year. Democrat senators have warned that the expiration of the subsidies would result in healthcare premium increases.

In the end, Democrats didn't get any of the things they held out for. How this will end is anyone's bet. Still, this is certain:

This much should be said. Amy Klobuchar isn't a moderate. She's a despicable person, too.

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