{"id":607975,"date":"2021-08-01T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T19:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607975"},"modified":"2021-08-01T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T19:05:23","slug":"theyre-not-all-candyland-ocasio-cortez-threatens-to-tank-infrastructure-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theyre-not-all-candyland-ocasio-cortez-threatens-to-tank-infrastructure-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re Not All Candyland\u2019: Ocasio-Cortez Threatens To Tank Infrastructure Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Ftheyre-not-all-candyland-ocasio-cortez-threatens-to-tank-infrastructure-deal%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=607975&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aoc-cnn-e1627842641408.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatened to tank a bipartisan infrastructure deal if the Senate does not pass a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a deal and the deal is reconciliation for the bipartisan infrastructure,\u201d she told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper on Sunday. \u201cIt was made very clear at the beginning of this process that this bipartisan deal, if it even survives the Senate, the only chance that it has at passing the House is if the House passes the Senate bill and if the Senate passes the House bill, which is largely in reconciliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Arizona Sens. Mark <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/igorbobic\/status\/1420475220410916875\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kelly<\/a> and Kyrsten Sinema and Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/01\/manchin-reconciliation-package-501975\">Manchin<\/a> have expressed misgivings about the size of the reconciliation package, with Sinema <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/28\/kyrsten-sinema-reconciliation-infrastructure-rashida-tlaib\/\">pledging<\/a> on July 28 not to \u201csupport a bill that costs $3.5 trillion.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/28\/squad-rips-sinema-reconciliation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Squad Rips Sinema For Opposition To $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Package)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t just have one body driving the entire legislative agenda for the country and, frankly, 20 senators within that one body. So we need a reconciliation bill if this bipartisan bill \u2014 if we want this bipartisan bill to pass,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez continued.<\/p>\n<p>67 senators <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/28\/bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-advances-senate-chuck-schumer-rob-portman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted<\/a> on July 28 to break a filibuster and begin debate on the bipartisan infrastructure deal. Seventeen Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, voted with all 50 Democrats to advance the package.<\/p>\n<p>With the bipartisan bill <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/30\/bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-clears-senate-vote-chuck-schumer-mitch-mcconnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expected<\/a> to pass the Senate in the next week, Tapper asked Ocasio-Cortez if she would vote for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is not a reconciliation bill in the house and if the Senate does not pass a reconciliation bill, we will uphold our end of the bargain and not pass the bipartisan bill until we get all of these investments in,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be clear, the investments in the bipartisan bill, they\u2019re not all, you know, Candyland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some of these quote, unquote \u2018pay fors\u2019 that are very alarming, that we need to see the language on. For example, some of the language around privatizing public infrastructure, putting toll roads, leasing public infrastructure to private entities are very concerning and should be concerning to every American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBipartisan doesn\u2019t always mean that it\u2019s in the interest of the public good, frankly. Sometimes there\u2019s a lot of corporate lobbyist giveaways in these bills,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many House Progressives do you think are with you on rejecting the bipartisan bill,\u201d Tapper asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe a very large amount of the Progressive Caucus. The total amount is about 90. You know, I am not the whip of the Progressive Caucus but what I can tell you is it\u2019s certainly more than three and it is in the double digits absolutely,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough to prevent it from passing?\u201d Tapper added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatened to tank a bipartisan infrastructure deal if the Senate does not pass a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.\u201cWe have a deal and the deal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"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-607975","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\/607975","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=607975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}