“To my Republican colleagues, we may learn something from our Democratic friends in Texas when it comes to avoiding a $3.5 trillion tax and spend package.
“Hell yeah, I would leave. I would use everything in my toolbox. It’s got nothing to do with infrastructure. It’s a tax and spend dream of the socialist left.
“If it takes me not showing up to stop that, I will do it because if we pass that bill, you’re going to have inflation through the roof and if they put legalizing illegal immigrants in that bill, you’re going to have a complete run on the border.
“It will be throwing jet fuel on a fire, called illegal immigration. It would lead to an invasion of illegal immigrants if we put amnesty in the $3.5 trillion bill so I would do anything I could to stop that.” -Sen. Lindsey Graham, today on Fox News.
Lindsey Graham threatens to leave Washington, DC and deny the Senate a quorum to block Democrats from passing the reconciliation infrastructure bill. pic.twitter.com/EDaQoflGN8
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) July 18, 2021
Graham is suggesting that every Republican walk on the reconciliation bill. If that happens, Democrats would not have a quorum. It is unlikely that every GOP Senator would walk out.
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) July 18, 2021