Murkowski: BBBribes for Alaska. The Rest of America can Drop Dead
The taunt is more than half-a-century old but resonates through the U.S. Capitol today. The role of “moderate” Republicans, Sen. Eugene McCarthy quipped, was to follow Nixon into battle and shoot the wounded.
Substitute Trump and you get the Republicans’ role today. They are the enablers, none more than Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who cast the decisive 50th Senate vote for the “Big Beautiful” bill. Vice President J.D. Vance then broke the tie. Murkowski was critical before and after the vote. I received a statement from her: “while we have improved the present bill for Alaska, it is not good enough for the rest of our nation — and we all know it.”
Outside the Senate chamber, she further disparaged what she had just rescued: “I’ve struggled mightily with the bill’s impact on the most vulnerable in this country. I needed help and worked to get that every single day. Did I get everything I wanted? Absolutely not.”
She owes Trump nothing. He tried to defeat her two years ago, flying to Alaska to tout her GOP opponent and claim she’d done nothing for the state. She was rescued by votes from Democrats, Alaska Natives and the bush. Meanwhile, rural residents in the 49th State stand to lose most, notably in Medicaid cuts.
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