Sen Amy Clobuhar (D-Winn) is criticizing Sen Lisa Murkowski for the decisive vote of Alaska Republican to carry forward the “Big, Beautiful Bill” of GOP last week.
“I was very disappointed, put it lightly,” Clobachar told MSNBC hosts Jane Pisaki.
Clobachar also attacked a provision in the bill Federal delay will delay Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for states with high payment error rate, including Alaska.
“They wanted to get rid of waste, fraud and misuse? They are really encouraging it,” he said. “If I am a governor in a state, I am preferring, ‘Get my error rate,’ because it can save me one billion dollars per year on the state budget.”
Murkovsky Removed many concessions – Many of them are specific to his state – from GOP leadership on an agoning and overnight Senate session last week.
This made several attempts to design changes in snap funding, which would at least temporarily affect Alaska effect. Earlier provision Got on fire The ax was killed by Democrats, Clobuhar, and eventually by the Senate MP.
GOP leaders settled around the budget reconciliation on the use of error rates to follow the rules of the Senate.
Nevertheless, after voting to pursue the bill, Murkovski Indicated that she was not Completely satisfied, call home to improve it.
However, in front of the possible defects from his side on the size of the national loan and the request to the White House, it should be passed, the House Republican chose the bill without stopping for Ram.
Clobuhar and Mercowski have worked together on this occasion, started law Combat fetal alcohol disorder And regulate Artificial intelligence In political advertisements.
Alaska Senator is known for his independent streak and the Supreme Court Justice Brett Kawanugh is broken with his party on major votes such as he opposed.
Clobachar said that people will lose medicid coverage as a result of law.
“I think people who are really going to get upset are people who are going to throw out of their health care,” said Clobuhar. Citing an estimate from The Congress budget office can lose its health insurance in 17 million Americans in 10 years.
