Heroic Republicans
July 3, 2025
Heroic Republicans: there are only three of them in the Senate and two of them in the House who voted against Trump’s big, beautiful bill that raises the debt ceiling by $5 trillion. Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Thom Tillis in the Senate (never in my life have I ever found a reason to praise Susan Collins) and Thomas Massie and Brian Fitzpatrick in the House all voted against this monstrosity.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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