Lisa Murkowski sold out, despite professing to be concerned about ugly vulture budget's impact on America's most vulnera

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The taunt is more than half-a-century old, but resonates through the U.S. Capitol today. The role of “moderate” Republicans, Senator 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 Senator Lisa Murkowski, R‑Alaska, who cast the decisive fiftieth vote for H.R. 1, his ugly vulture budget. Vice President J.D. Vance then broke the tie.

Murkowski was critical before and after the vote.

I received a statement, reading: “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.”

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