Sen. Graham: 'I Would Leave Town' to Block Dems' $3.5T 'Liberal Wish List'

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says he would "do anything I could," including leaving town, to stop Democrats from passing a $3.5-trillion bill full of social programs and other wish-list items without a single Republican vote.

"I would leave before I would let that happen," Graham told "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo. "So, 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: Leave town."

Texas Democrats walked out of a special session of the state legislature last week and flew to Washington, to deny Republicans the quorum they need to pass a voting integrity bill and other priority items.

Vice President Kamala Harris praised their "extraordinary courage and commitment" in fleeing the state.

Graham told Bartiromo he would expect the same treatment:

Hey, Vice President Harris, if you think these people are heroes, well, then I expect you to show up and pat us on the back.

Hell, yeah, I would leave. I'm not -- I will use everything lawfully in my toolbox to prevent rampant inflation. A $3.5 trillion infrastructure package that's got nothing to do with infrastructure, that is 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 would 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'd do anything I could to stop that.