‘NO SHAME’: GOP Senator Roasted For Praising COVID Relief Plan … He Voted Against

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Hours after the House delivered President Biden’s first legislative victory by passing a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package on Wednesday, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) suddenly acted as though he did not vote against the plan last weekend alongside his fellow Republican senators — and was swiftly dragged by Twitter users for it.

In a Wednesday afternoon tweet, Wicker touted that the passage of the COVID-19 relief plan in Congress will deliver targeted relief to independent restaurant operators that have struggled amid the pandemic.

Pressed by CNN’s Manu Raju on his tweet shortly after posting it, Wicker defended his vote opposing the legislation last weekend by arguing that “one good provision” doesn’t mean he was obligated to “vote for the whole thing,” according to a Hill pool report.

Wicker quipped that it’s “a stupid question” to ask about his tweet touting the COVID-19 relief plan that he voted against.

“I’m not gonna vote for $1.9 trillion just because it has a couple of good provisions,” Wicker said, according to a Hill pool report.

Senate Democrats passed the package through reconciliation — which only required 51 votes and allowed Democrats to circumvent the filibuster — last weekend, Senate Republicans complained that the process was partisan, and deployed delay tactics such as forcing the entire bill to be read aloud and proposing a slew of amendments.

Twitter users were quick to call out the irony in Wicker’s praise for the COVID-19 relief plan that he voted against last weekend:

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  1. Sen. Wicker was against the legislation before he was for it!! Remember that Repub accusation?

  2. Nice try Senator but your hypocrisy is outpaced by your dishonesty.

  3. the “new” bothsiderism.

  4. Avatar for cd cd says:

    Digby has nailed it:

    shamelessness is the Republican superpower, and they wield it mightily

  5. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    No? But Wicker sure will try to take credit for it once it passes. That is the perfect definition of a corrupt, two-timing, lying Republican ass-wipe!

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