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McConnell: $800B infrastructure package acceptable
thehill ^ | 05/10/2021 | Dominick Mastrangelo

Posted on 05/10/2021 6:19:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled in a new interview that he is open to an infrastructure spending bill totaling as much as $800 billion.

"The proper price tag for what most of think about when we think about infrastructure is about [$600 billion to $800 billion]," McConnell told public television in Kentucky over the weekend.

"What we've got here can best be described as a bait and switch," he added.

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KEYWORDS: acceptable; infratructure; mcconnell; package
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s not the price tag as much as what the projects are. If we’re rebuilding crumbling roads and unsafe bridges, fine. If we’re building cysgendered nurturing safe-space halfway houses, no thank you.


21 posted on 05/10/2021 7:11:51 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We know what you are Mitch all you’re doing is haggling on the price.🤮


22 posted on 05/10/2021 7:20:21 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: drypowder

This.🙄


23 posted on 05/10/2021 7:21:36 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

While the dollar figure is important (my figure would be no more than $600 billion spread in declining amounts over six years, averaging no more than an average $100 billion a year to the budget), no dollar figure is more important than how the money is directed, how much of it is not “infrastructure” and what strings come with it.

The massively worst two parts of Biden’s proposal is (a) at least half has zero to do with infrastructure, and (b) all of it has political mandates converted critical race theory into managing how every federal infrastructure dollar is spent. For every single environmental mental lawyer federal infrastructure spending is now done, we will need two lawyers demanding and judging how each project conforms to the critical race theory mandates that federal law will demand. Plan on a “civil rights” division of the DOJ being twice it’s present size.

McConnel and the Senate GOP should vote no on any Biden “infrastructure” bill, no matter the dollar amount, beause the long term purpose of ANY infrastructure bill Biden puts forward, is now and will be, transformation of federal law in the area of federal infrastructure spending to insert critical race theory mandates as permanent, fixed, features of the law, long after the current budgeted dollars are spent.

THAT is the true “bait and switch” going on and it is bigger, in importance than any dollar amount. I think McConnel has his head in the sand on this.


24 posted on 05/10/2021 9:50:07 AM PDT by Wuli ("")
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