Former president Donald Trump Saturday criticism Senate Minority leader Mickey McConnell About his plan to skip the White House presidential signing ceremony Joe BidenThe bipartisan infrastructure bill, as Congress Republicans Who helped pass the plan is still divided on whether to participate in Monday’s event.
“Mickey McConnell stated that he will not sign the’non-infrastructure’ bill (the actual infrastructure is only 11%), or is sometimes referred to as the election Democratic Party In the 2022/24 Act,” Trump said in a statement. “This allowed Biden and the Democrats to win when they fell off the cliff. “
“Based on the fact that the old crow persuaded many Republican senators to vote for the bill, it greatly jeopardized their chances of winning re-election, and he led the way, he should go to sign and endure the great contempt. He is already attacking his Republican patriots,” The former president added.
McConnell, who voted for the bill and aroused Trump’s anger, touted the comprehensive plan as “Good for the country“And tried to give the Senate praise for the bill’s passage in his hometown. But as tensions among Republicans on whether to support the Biden agenda increased, McConnell said on Thursday that he would not participate in the bill. Signing ceremony.
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“No, besides attending the signing ceremony, I have other things to do,” he said in an interview with iHeartMedia’s Kentucky radio station WHAS.
McConnell and 18 other Senate Republicans voted for the infrastructure bill with Democrats in August. After months of intense negotiations and delays, the House of Representatives basically passed the plan on a partisan line last Friday. 13 House Republicans broke with their parties and voted for the plan. Due to the resistance of six progressive lawmakers, this legislation would not have been successful without Republican defectors.
House Republicans who supported the bill on November 5 were criticized by members of their own caucus from the far right, including Madison Cawthron of North Carolina and Madison Cawthron. Marjorie Taylor Green Georgians call them “traitors”.
White House Press Secretary Jane Passaki It was stated on Friday that the Biden administration had invited some Republicans who helped “push the infrastructure bill” to participate in Monday’s signing ceremony.
So far, there is only one Republican in the House of Representatives-the House of Representatives.Tom Reed of New York and two Senate Republicans (Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Mukovsky of Alaska-Yes comfirmed They will attend the signing ceremony.
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