#NJAIPACMAGADem5 Give Carte Blanche Support to Trump’s Psychotic Foreign Policy
Lets cut to the chase – in this vote 3 NJ Democrats voted NO – Bonnie Watson Coleman, Lamonica McIver and Robert Menendez Jr.- GOOD!
The other 5 – Gottheimer, Pallone, Conaway, Pou and Norcross voted YAY. They voted for the Republican sponsored “minibus” appropriations bill for the State Department, the IRS, and various other agencies by a broad 341 to 79.
188 Republicans and 153 Democrats voted for it; 57 Democrats and 22 Republicans voted against it.
Please read further this piece by writer Jonathan Cohn detailing the full list of reasons why those who gave a proper NO vote.
Partial list:
- The bills failure to do anything to constrain Trump’s illegal and reckless warmongering toward Venezuela and other Latin American countries
- Its codification of the defunding of USAID and core humanitarian programs
- Its defunding of the IRS’s work to combat tax evasion and avoidance
- Its creation of an $850 million slush fund for Rubio and no guardrails and transparency around its use
- A Latin America policy that prioritizes migration enforcement rather than addressing root causes
- $3.3B in new foreign military financing for Israel with no restrictions or reporting
It should be noted that these 5 Democrats very typically vote with Republicans on foreign policy and all 5 of them are even more hawkish than the other Democrats in support of Israel. All 5 are darlings funding wise of AIPAC and other pro-Israel lobbyist groups.
At a time when NJ’s Republican Party is openly endorsing the street slaughter of immigrant support dissidents – Democrats should not be making any bipartisan deals with Republicans including on this bill which also touches on the crackdown issues – in which Rubio is complicit in crimes against humanity – and he gets a warchest to bring more arbitrary harm on American citizens and residents as well as our sisters and brothers of Latin American and the rest of the world coming under violent threats of warfare day by day.
FightBackBetter calls out the complict AIPAC MAGA Democrats and we raise the question of the harm that these types of Democrats sliding over to help Trump in Congress might have upon voter turn out in the MIdterms. If voting Blue elects Democrats who turn around and vote for Trump policies consistently what is the point! Word to the wise in the progressive end of NJ’s rank and file Democrats – you might want to get your candidates right with the needs of protecting NJ’s citizens and residents and steering us clear of warfare and repression at home because FightBackBetter will continue to monitor and expose where voting for Blue is like voting for Blue and White and also voting for Red. Way too often especially these 5 MAGA AIPAC dems morph into Trump boot lickers and vote YAY on Republican initiatives being carried out under Trump’s orders when it comes to Israel and Trump’s psycho foreign policy!
