In yet another sign that she plans to double down on her support for her party bosses’ costly Washington agenda, liberal U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) voted today to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to implement her costly, unpopular health spending law, keeping in place its massive tax hikes and Medicare cuts, as well as its unpopular individual mandate. 

After the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill today to prevent the massive government spending needed to implement the Democrats’ costly, unpopular health care overhaul, Stabenow joined with her fellow Senate Democrats to kill the measure – ensuring that Michigan families will be forced to deal with the law’s $570 billion in tax hikes, $500 billion in Medicare cuts in order to expand government, and onerous individual mandate.

“As with every other vote she casts in Washington, Senator Stabenow’s decision to spend billions of dollars to fund her massive health care overhaul leaves no doubt that she continues to support a liberal partisan agenda over the best interests of Michigan,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond. “While Stabenow doubles down on her liberal Washington record, voters have yet another reason to replace her with a commonsense Republican next year.”

As a reminder, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently estimated that Stabenow’s health care overhaul will increase federal deficits by $260 billion through 2019.