{"id":985411,"date":"2021-11-08T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T19:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=985411"},"modified":"2021-11-08T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T19:59:20","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-delighted-congress-passed-1-2-trillion-so-called-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-delighted-congress-passed-1-2-trillion-so-called-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell &#039;Delighted&#039; Congress Passed $1.2 Trillion So-Called Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fmitch-mcconnell-delighted-congress-passed-1-2-trillion-so-called-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill%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=985411&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\/11\/McConnell-Budget-Bill-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Monday that he was \u201cdelighted\u201d to hear Congress passed the $1.2 trillion so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, granting President Joe Biden a significant legislative victory.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u201cI&nbsp;<\/span>was delighted to hear that the House finally found a way to pass the infrastructure bill last week,\u201d McConnell, one of the 19 Senate Republicans to vote for the bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrevorPetersTV\/status\/1457749486755885060?s=20\">said<\/a> during an event in northern Kentucky.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis will be the first time I\u2019ve come up here in a quarter of a century when I thought maybe there was a way forward on the Brent Spence Bridge,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell noted Kentucky will receive roughly $4.6 billion in infrastructure funding from the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, or the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) managed to pass the bill Friday night after 13 House Republicans gave Democrats the necessary votes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Reps. John Katko (R-NY), Don Bacon (R-NE), Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ), Fred Upton (R-MI), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Don Young (R-AK), Tom Reed (R-NY), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA),&nbsp;Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), and&nbsp;Rep. David McKinley (R-WV)&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/05\/republicans-bail-out-biden-and-pelosi-to-pass-1-2-trillion-so-called-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">voted<\/a> yes on the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<p>These House Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/06\/13-republicans-save-the-squad-from-voting-for-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill\/\">gave<\/a> Democrats enough votes for the bill to pass that it gave the progressive \u201cSquad\u201d enough space not to vote for the bill.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.5227272727273\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GOP BETRAYAL: Thirteen House Republicans voted to bail out Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi\u2019s agenda and pass the $1.2 trillion so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill. Here are their names. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pfZH04gs1B\">https:\/\/t.co\/pfZH04gs1B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1457194936974053377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nineteen Senate Republicans <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marianne_levine\/status\/1425123037867880450?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">voted<\/a> for the infrastructure bill. The Senate Republicans that <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marianne_levine\/status\/1425123521328517121?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">voted&nbsp;<\/a>with Democrats for the legislation include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Dan Sullivan (R-AK)<\/li>\n<li>Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)<\/li>\n<li>Mike Crapo (R-ID)<\/li>\n<li>Roy Blunt (R-MO)<\/li>\n<li>Richard Burr (R-NC)<\/li>\n<li>Deb Fischer (R-NE)<\/li>\n<li>Lindsey Graham (R-SC)<\/li>\n<li>Rob Portman (R-OH)<\/li>\n<li>Thom Tillis (R-NC)<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)<\/li>\n<li>Jim Risch (R-ID)<\/li>\n<li>Chuck Grassley (R-IA)<\/li>\n<li>Bill Cassidy (R-LA)<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Cramer (R-ND)<\/li>\n<li>Roger Wicker (R-MS)<\/li>\n<li>Mitch McConnell (R-KY)<\/li>\n<li>John Hoeven (R-ND)<\/li>\n<li>Susan Collins (R-ME)<\/li>\n<li>Mitt Romney (R-UT)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Despite McConnell\u2019s praise for the bill, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that the bill would add $256 billion to the deficit, and the Penn-Wharton Budget Model said the bill would add no \u201csignificant\u201d level of economic growth.<\/p>\n<p><i>Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMoran3\"><i>@SeanMoran3<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Monday that he was \u201cdelighted\u201d to hear Congress passed the $1.2 trillion so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, granting President Joe Biden a significant legislative &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"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-985411","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\/985411","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985411\/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=985411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}