Hours after Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced late on July 27 that a deal has been reached over a spending package they say would help reduce inflation, some Republican lawmakers heavily criticized the measure, saying the bill would accomplish the opposite and make matters even worse.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), said the measure would only kill jobs by raising taxes.
“Democrats have already crushed American families with historic inflation. Now they want to pile on giant tax hikes that will hammer workers and kill many thousands of American jobs,” he wrote on Twitter. “First they killed your family’s budget. Now they want to kill your job too.”…