XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics
|
| The lone Republican vote in the Senate last month to
| protect consumers from bank overdraft fees came from an
| unlikely Democratic ally: Senator Josh Hawley, the
| archconservative from Missouri best known for calling out
| "wokeness" in all sectors of society, and for raising his
| fist to offer solidarity with supporters of President Trump
| hours before the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.
|
| And yet the overdraft vote was hardly the first time Mr.
| Hawley had stood apart from his Republican colleagues. In
| 2023 he introduced a bill to cap out-of-pocket insulin
| costs at $25 per month, which died in committee for lack of
| Republican support. He has broken from his party by
| refusing to vote for cuts to Medicaid as part of the budget
| reconciliation process.
| ... <
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/us/politics/josh-hawley-populist.html>
--bks
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