Republican senators say they fully support fixing infrastructure, but oppose President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure package because includes unrelated items that unnecessarily increase the national debt. “It’s mostly not spending money on infrastructure and so it seems that they have established no upper bound limit on how much we spend, no questions have been answered about what needs to be a state responsibility, what needs to be a federal responsibility, or how we pay for it,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) told Fox News on Thursday. “These policies are not sustainable, the spending levels are out of control and these are all going to lead to economic catastrophe,” said Lee. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters earlier this week that he has no problem with funding infrastructure projects but his definition of infrastructure differs from his Democratic colleagues. “There’s broad bipartisan support for tackling the infrastructure issue, but it …
GOP Senators Object to Unrelated Items in Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Package
April 9, 2021
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