{"id":459989,"date":"2021-04-27T14:50:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T18:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=459989"},"modified":"2021-04-27T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T18:50:56","slug":"sen-mcconnell-bidens-infrastructure-plan-is-unfocused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-mcconnell-bidens-infrastructure-plan-is-unfocused\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. McConnell: Biden\u2019s infrastructure plan is unfocused"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-mcconnell-bidens-infrastructure-plan-is-unfocused%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=459989&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2402949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2402949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks about the push by some Democrats to try to add seats to the Supreme Court, after a GOP policy luncheon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 11:36 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, April 27, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is speaking out against Joe Biden\u2019s infrastructure proposal by warning the Democrat\u2019s job plan will cost taxpayers thousands of dollars. While speaking from the Senate floor on Monday, he criticized the left for trying to pass dishonest legislation while arguing the package neither improves infrastructure or creates jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand this is no longer an infrastructure plan, now it\u2019s a jobs plan, but that turns out to be just as dishonest,\u201d stated the Kentucky Republican. \u201c\u2026this plan would cost Americans more than $800,000 for every new job that would exist ten years down the road..this plan is bloated, unfocused, it\u2019s not a targeted recipe for better public works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell went on to highlight how the bill lacks proper funding for actual infrastructure with more funds, instead, being allocated to expand broadband technology and invested into labor unions. He said the package is a ploy of the far-left agenda and warned that Democrats are using Biden\u2019s plan to sign-off on their excessive spending \u201cwish list.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a sloppy liberal wish list that would spend a lot and get very little in return,\u201d he asserted. \u201cThe far left has been bragging about all the social engineers and welfare spending that is stuffed into these proposals; they boasted that the DNA of the Green New Deal is all over this administration\u2019s agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senate minority leader went on to praise the effort of Senate Republicans who introduced a counter proposal last week that that deals with \u201cactual infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Republicans have responded to Democrats\u2019 \u201cinfrastructure\u201d bill with a smart proposal to meet real needs.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Roads. Bridges. Ports. Airports. Waterways. Broadband.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Are Democrats ready to work together? Or was \u201cinfrastructure\u201d just wrapping paper for more gifts to the far left?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeaderMcConnell\/status\/1386853442707144706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said the $600 billion proposal focuses on specific needs for the American people whereas the Democrats $2 trillion package funds wasteful, non-infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe puts more money in his proposal for electrical vehicles than he does for roads, bridges, ports, airports and waterways combined,\u201d noted the Wyoming lawmaker. \u201cSo it\u2019s time to say we want to do things that are really in the best interest of the American people, what the American people are asking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of his remarks, McConnell put the spotlight on Democrats by stating only time will tell if the left will continue to push partisan legislation disguised as beneficial to all or if they will actually try to reach across the aisle and help Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is the time we learn whether Democrats really want to jump-start actual public works projects or whether infrastructure was only ever intended as a wrapping paper for unrelated gifts to the far left,\u201d stated the Senate minority leader.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/texas-official-floats-using-bidens-stimulus-relief-funds-to-build-border-wall\/\"> Texas official floats using Biden\u2019s stimulus relief funds to build border wall<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks about the push by some Democrats to try to add seats to the Supreme Court, after a GOP policy luncheon, on Capitol Hill &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276843,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}