As Congress prepared to pass the Democrats’ COVID relief package last month, plenty of lawmakers made predictions about its efficacy and the impact it would have on the economy. But as regular readers may recall, Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, offered a different kind of prediction on the chamber floor.

“What we are all concerned about on our side,” Yarmuth said, referring to Democrats, “is that the Republicans are all going to vote against this, and then they’re going to show up at every ribbon cutting, and at every project funded out of this bill, and they’re going to pump up their chests and take credit for all of these great benefits that are coming to their citizens.”

The Kentucky Democrat knew of what he spoke. A wide variety of GOP lawmakers have done exactly that.

This started in earnest with Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), who celebrated the American Rescue Plan’s beneficial “targeted relief” for restaurants, while failing to mention that he voted against the […]