The DC swamp lives on. As expected, a host of Republican lawmakers betrayed the party’s base on Thursday when they voted with Democrats to pass bloated, pork-filled omnibus spending bills that funded many of the left-wing causes the GOP claims to oppose.
Of all the egregious acts these Republicans supported, shooting down an effort to remove a mandate requiring vehicle manufacturers to install a kill switch in new cars so the government can shut your car off remotely may have been the most hypocritical, considering the party once opposed big government.
“Unbelievably disturbing. 57 House Republicans just joined almost all the Democrats to ensure the government can shut off your car whenever it wants,” Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) posted in response to the government overreach.
Unbelievably disturbing.
57 House Republicans just joined almost all the Democrats to ensure the government can shut off your car whenever it wants. pic.twitter.com/iLztCUNC5h
— Rep. Keith Self (@RepKeithSelf) January 22, 2026
Self shared other posts detailing more of the troubling actions GOP lawmakers supported in voting for the funding bills, including “abortions,” “transgender surgeries on children,” and “DEI activism.”
He rightfully asked, “With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?”
76 House Republicans joined every single House Democrat in support of earmarks for abortions, gender procedures on children, DEI activism, and partisan pet projects.
With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats? pic.twitter.com/Cbtl2bunQ2
— Rep. Keith Self (@RepKeithSelf) January 22, 2026
Many Republicans are saying we are “doing the best we can.”
Funding abortions?
Funding transgender surgeries on children?
Allowing kill switches on Americans’ cars?
That’s the best we can do? No.
If we keep this up, pretty soon, the Republicans are going to own every failed…
— Rep. Keith Self (@RepKeithSelf) January 22, 2026
“A lot to be ticked off about. We lied to you and enabled the Marxist left,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) posted on X afterwards.
According to the popular Wall Street Mav account, which responded to Burchett’s post, “Republicans betrayed their voters so badly tonight, Democrats CHEERED when these bills passed!”
Republicans betrayed their voters so badly tonight, Democrats CHEERED when these bills passed!
1. Failed to remove a mandate requiring vehicle manufacturers to install a kill switch in new cars so the government can shut your car off remotely.
2. Passed over $10 million in… https://t.co/bE6LUf8hKL
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) January 23, 2026
The whole sordid affair gives lift to the sick notion that partisan politics have been cast aside in favor of a uniparty, where everyone gets their share of pork.
Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X, beginning with the question, “Who’s idea was it to put a bill in front of Congress that allows government and corporations to have a kill switch in your cars?”
The GOP is compromised. The FBI is corrupt. Can we fire everyone and start over! Every Republican who voted for a kill switch should be primaried!
— Madeline Elizabeth (@TheMadelineEliz) January 23, 2026
Cars have had kill switches in them for a while now. A number of vehicle dealers will install them depending on how your loan/lease is financed. If you miss a couple of payments that car isn’t moving.
I’ve never liked the idea and don’t think it should be legal. Yes, I would…
— Julie Miller (@JerseyGirlsOne) January 23, 2026
— Marc Ave (@PhatAve420) January 23, 2026
If this was a ballot question, the ability to government to turn off your car would lose by 60%
But somehow our “representatives”decided they know better
Vote them out
— Michael D864 (@Mdouglas91320) January 23, 2026
I pray Trump vetoes this mess and that 57 “Republicans” get primaried out of town on a rail.
— Tracy Lou (@SootLady) January 23, 2026
That’s twice in a row that nearly 100 Republicans have turned their backs on the American voters who put them in office and on President Trump, voting with the Democrats. When are we going to admit that our system is broken? We have activist judges who have destroyed our judicial…
— Ruth Jones (@NotThatMrsJones) January 23, 2026
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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