Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) blames the president Joe Biden Just days after the bipartisan senators reached an agreement, they took the bipartisan infrastructure bill as “hostages.”
Cassidy is the latest Republican to criticize the Biden plan combined with the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure framework that will fund “human infrastructure.” Democratic Party Is seeking.
The President has stated that unless both proposals are approved, he will not sign any of the proposals into law. Congress -The comment says Senate Minority leader Mickey McConnell (R-KY) was interpreted as a threat of veto power.
Cassidy was interviewed in New Orleans fox On the 8th, he criticized Biden for linking these two measures.
“So now there is a lot of conversation about what the president means,” Cassidy said.
Cassidy hinted that when Biden linked these proposals in his speech on Thursday, he might have said the wrong thing.
“But that It’s not our understanding when we started these sincere negotiations,” Cassidy said.
“So I hope we continue to be sincere, and not as if we crafted something just to give the president a little influence to gain something. Republicans disagree. “
Cassidy went further in Friday’s tweet. Sharing his commentary video, he wrote: “The Democratic leadership and @POTUS holding the historic bipartisan infrastructure agreement as hostages have never discussed with us. This is not part of the deal we agreed to.
His remarks are part of a re-showdown between Senate Republicans and the White House a few days after announcing an agreement on infrastructure.
Democratic leadership and @POTUS Never discussed with us taking the historic bipartisan infrastructure agreement as hostage, which was not part of the deal we agreed to. https://t.co/5nACDjoJkA
-US Senator Bill Cassidy, MD (@SenBillCassidy) June 26, 2021
On Thursday, Biden told reporters: “I expect that in the coming months of this summer, before the end of the fiscal year, we will vote on this bill-the Infrastructure Act-and the budget resolution.”
“But if only one person came to me, I would not sign it. It was one after the other,” the president said.
Other Republican senators also expressed concern about linking the infrastructure bill to the second measure-this may be passed through a budget settlement process without a Republican vote, which includes provision for family health care and childcare Measures such as funding.
Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), a key figure in the negotiations on the infrastructure framework of the two parties, told the Associated Press on Friday: “I have been talking to the White House, my Democratic colleagues, and my Republican colleagues. Talking on the phone. Damn one day.”
senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) More emphasis on Politico’s comments On Thursday night, it was called a “suicide mission” to support the two-track proposal. He is one of 11 Republican senators who signed the bipartisan framework.
“If he wants to tie them together, he can forget it!” Graham said. “I won’t do that. That’s blackmail! I won’t do that. The Democrats were told you can’t let your bipartisan work product pass unless you sign what the left wants, and I’m not playing that game.”
McConnell Accuse Biden of threatening to veto the infrastructure bill, Thought this meant that the president was not “serious” about passing legislation.
“Less than two hours after publicly praising our colleagues and actually supporting the bipartisan agreement, the president took extraordinary steps and threatened to veto it,” McConnell said in the Senate on Thursday.
It takes at least 10 Republican votes to reach the 60 votes needed to overcome the obstruction bill and pass the bipartisan infrastructure framework, but linking the bill to a separate measure seems to put Republican support at risk.
Weekly newspaper The White House and Senator Bill Cassidy have been asked to comment.
Pete Marovic/Getty Images
