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Senate Minority Leader and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell believes that the Democrat Party leaders have surrendered their party to the radical progressives.
“Democratic leaders are letting the radical left run Capitol Hill,” the leader of the Republicans in the Senate said, Yahoo News reported.
“Socialists like Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied against the Administration’s infrastructure bill and defeated it. With Americans already suffering the worst inflation in 30 years, Democrats have taken our roads, bridges, ports, airports, and waterways hostage to ram through an historically reckless taxing and spending spree that would hurt families and help China,” he said.
McConnell said that the Democrats are in control of Washington DC but are incapable of governing.
“They can’t even pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill that President Biden negotiated and Speaker Pelosi promised she would pass this week,” he said.
“This unified Democratic government must stop putting radical wish-lists ahead of basic governance or they will thrust our nation into even more foreseeable and avoidable crises on their watch,” he warned.
He said that Democrats have ignored their duties as they have continued arguing amongst themselves as they attempt to pass two spending bills.
“While Democrats waste weeks arguing with each other, they’ve ignored basic governing duties,” the senator said.
“On Thursday, Senate Democrats’ mismanagement brought us close to a government shutdown. And for two and a half months, this all-Democrat government has known they will need to use a fast-track party-line process to raise the debt ceiling, but have done nothing,” he said.
The White House said on Saturday that it would continue working towards the goal of getting the two bills passed.
“The President and his team will continue close engagement with Members of both the House and the Senate through the weekend,” it said.
“And he looks forward to not only welcoming Members to the White House next week, but also traveling the country to make the case for his bold and ambitious agenda,” it said.
Still, after postponing the vote three times, House Speaker and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi has vowed to have the bills voted on by October, 31.
“It’s about time! There is an October 31st Surface Transportation Authorization deadline, after last night’s passage of a critical 30-day extension. We must pass BIF well before then – the sooner the better, to get the jobs out there,” she said.
But even fellow Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema expressed her disappointment with her party’s leadership.
The senator issued a statement on Saturday in which she accused her party leadership of making “conflicting promises that could not all be kept.”
“The failure of the U.S. House to hold a vote on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is inexcusable, and deeply disappointing for communities across our country,” she said in a statement on Twitter.
Canceling the U.S. House vote on the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act denies Americans millions of new good-paying jobs and hurts everyday families.
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— Kyrsten Sinema (@SenatorSinema) October 2, 2021
“Denying Americans millions of good-paying jobs, safer roads, cleaner water, more reliable electricity, and better broadband only hurts everyday families,” she said.
“Congress was designed as a place where representatives of Americans with valid and diverse views find compromise and common ground,” the senator said.
“What Americans have seen instead is an ineffective stunt to gain leverage over a separate proposal,” she said.
The senator fumed at the promises that could not be kept and the betrayal of trust of the ongoing negotiations.
“Good-faith negotiations, however, require trust. Over the course of this year, Democratic leaders have made conflicting promises that could not all be kept — and have, at times, pretended that differences of opinion within our party did not exist, even when those disagreements were repeatedly made clear directly and publicly.
“Canceling the infrastructure vote further erodes that trust. More importantly, it betrays the trust the American people have placed in their elected leaders and denies our country crucial investments to expand economic opportunities,” she said.
