{"id":950823,"date":"2021-11-01T18:14:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=950823"},"modified":"2021-11-01T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:14:24","slug":"mcauliffe-called-on-dems-to-pass-infrastructure-bill-ahead-of-election-his-party-failed-to-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcauliffe-called-on-dems-to-pass-infrastructure-bill-ahead-of-election-his-party-failed-to-deliver\/","title":{"rendered":"McAuliffe Called on Dems To Pass Infrastructure Bill Ahead of Election. His Party Failed To Deliver."},"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\">32<\/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%2Fmcauliffe-called-on-dems-to-pass-infrastructure-bill-ahead-of-election-his-party-failed-to-deliver%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=950823&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 readability=\"29.65034965035\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Party hoped passage of bill would boost Virginia Dem&#8217;s campaign<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1333763330_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1333763330_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1333763330_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1333763330_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tVirginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/cole-carnick\/\" title=\"Posts by Cole Carnick\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Cole Carnick<\/a> \u2022 November 1, 2021 6:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"81.325622775801\">\n<p>The day before the Virginia gubernatorial election, congressional Democrats are at odds over the $1.1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, whose passage Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe had called for to boost his election prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) on Monday announced he will withhold his support for Democrats&#8217; larger $1.85 trillion social spending and climate bill, saying the White House-backed framework employs &#8220;budget gimmicks&#8221; and &#8220;shell games&#8221; to conceal the actual cost of the bill. House Democrats, however, have vowed to hold up the smaller infrastructure bill, which the Senate passed in August with 69 votes, until an agreement is reached on the spending bill. Manchin called for an immediate vote on the infrastructure bill, prolonging the standoff between himself\u2014as well as Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) and moderate House Democrats\u2014and the party&#8217;s progressive caucus.<\/p>\n<p>McAuliffe has for weeks called on Democrats in Congress to pass the infrastructure deal, expressing frustration that his party is unable to notch a much-needed win ahead of the election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why haven&#8217;t we passed this infrastructure bill? It passed the U.S. Senate with 69 votes two months ago,&#8221; McAuliffe told CNN last month. &#8220;We&#8217;re tired of the chitty-chat&nbsp;in Washington.&nbsp;Get into a room and get it figured out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Virginia Democrat at a gubernatorial debate last month said the spending bill, whose price tag was then $3.5 trillion, was &#8220;too high&#8221; and pushed Democrats to pass the smaller infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<p>While McAuliffe&#8217;s poll numbers have plummeted over the last month, political observers believed an agreement would boost the Virginia Democrat&#8217;s election prospects. In recent days, however, McAuliffe has tried to distance his campaign from the intraparty debate, telling NBC on Sunday, &#8220;When I travel around Virginia, they&#8217;re not asking about what&#8217;s going on in Washington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, McAuliffe has seen his polling lead over Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin evaporate\u2014while the Virginia Democrat held a 5-point lead over Youngkin in early October, McAuliffe now trails the Republican candidate by 8 points, according to a Fox News poll released last week.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Party hoped passage of bill would boost Virginia Dem&#8217;s campaign  Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe \/ Getty Images  Cole Carnick \u2022 November 1, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950823","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\/950823","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\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950823\/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=950823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}