Ex-president Donald Trump spoke up on Friday in his latest effort to poison the waters for Democratic legislation.
"You are just being played by the Radical Left Democrats—they will give you nothing!” he said. “Fake infrastructure proposals being put forward by Democrats, almost all of which goes to the ridiculous Green New Deal Marxist agenda. Keep the Trump Administration's tax cuts just where they are.”
The semi-coherent rant would, from other ex-Presidents, be described as a way to protect their legacies. From Trump, it's just saying "You have to do it my way!" But I digress.
Trump's statement will put pressure on the Republican lawmakers who have gone in hook, line, and sinker for the votes of Trump supporters.
That does not bode well for the Democrats' plan, spelled out by Chuck Schumer, to pass two infrastructure bills, one that is bipartisan and will cost $1.2 trillion over 8 years, and a second one that will address the aims of Democrats, lawmakers return from the July 4 recess.
In making these remarks he did, Trump is trying to overturn the bipartisan agreement and sink the additional infrastructure spending that Democrats propose.
Mitch McConnell is already talking stonewall. "This is going to be a hell of a fight over what this country ought to look like in the future," McConnell said on Tuesday. "I don't think we've had a bigger difference of opinion between the two parties."
McConnell said, too, "This is not going to be done on a bipartisan basis." It's a surprising remark, given that we haven't seen McConnell in a bipartisan negotiation since Clinton, or earlier.
But that's what you can expect from the America's worst president in living memory.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/562391-trump-tells-gop-lawmakers-to-halt-infrastructure-push-you-are
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