Two GOP senators break ranks on final Senate budget vote
Summary
Two Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul, voted against a Senate budget plan that aims to help reopen the Department of Homeland Security after a two-month shutdown. Their opposition is unusual because most of their party supported the budget resolution.Key Facts
- Senators Murkowski (Alaska) and Paul (Kentucky) voted against the budget resolution.
- The resolution could end the two-month shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
- Murkowski is a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
- Most other Republican senators voted in favor of the budget plan.
- The budget vote took place on a Thursday morning.
- The resolution sets the stage for future budget decisions related to Homeland Security funding.
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