{"id":995459,"date":"2021-11-10T17:58:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T22:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=995459"},"modified":"2021-11-10T17:58:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T22:58:38","slug":"cracks-show-in-the-gop-following-vote-to-give-biden-win-on-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cracks-show-in-the-gop-following-vote-to-give-biden-win-on-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracks Show In The GOP Following Vote To Give Biden Win On Infrastructure"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fcracks-show-in-the-gop-following-vote-to-give-biden-win-on-infrastructure%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=995459&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--><p>While a few Republican lawmakers expressed open frustration online against their 13 colleagues who voted to pass President Joe Biden\u2019s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill late last week, the anger within the party is far more widespread, multiple lawmakers told the Daily Caller. Members, fueled by a feeling of betrayal after Republican votes gave Biden a win, are also angered at the level of leadership coming from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a significant amount of frustration and some degree of anger,\u201d one Republican congressman told the Caller. \u201cThere\u2019s a feeling of betrayal from the party \u2026 The blame is to be shared with McCarthy and leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Republican congressman, who described McCarthy\u2019s leadership as \u201cweak,\u201d said his explanation for the 13 defectors was that some of these members are retiring and therefore can\u2019t be controlled. This congressman pointed out that the 13 Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/05\/democrats-plan-pass-spending-package-infrastructure-bill-collapses-amid-intraparty-disagreements\/\">votes<\/a> ended up being \u201cthe difference in Joe Biden winning or losing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A GOP aide offered a counter-perspective to the mounting frustration within the party, arguing that the threshold for the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/05\/house-sends-infrastructure-bill-bidens-desk-after-11th-hour-agreement-between-liberals-moderates\/\">vote<\/a> was much smaller and suggesting there has been misguided focus on the number 13.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/09\/29\/1041267250\/house-republicans-infrastructure-spending-legislation-upton-cole-mccarthy\">Several<\/a> House Republicans were open about their support for the bipartisan infrastructure bill prior to Friday evening\u2019s vote, a note that the aide pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vote shouldn\u2019t be a surprise or a shock to anybody, because all of those people have been public for a long time,\u201d the GOP aide said, adding that some of the votes came from so-called \u201cpurple states\u201d and others came from soon-to-be retirees.<\/p>\n<p>Still, frustration within the party is lingering after the vote. The White House, which declined to comment for this story, spent months working all factions of the Democratic Party to try and get members united around Biden\u2019s agenda. Ultimately, six Democrats voted against the bipartisan infrastructure bill, meaning it would have failed without Republican support.<\/p>\n<p>A third member of the Republican conference told the Caller that there\u2019s a \u201csimple answer\u201d for the events on Friday \u2013 events that gave Biden a win after a series of crises and allowed him to tout the bill\u2019s bipartisan nature. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/06\/infrastructure-bill-joe-biden-win-republicans-help\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;\u2018Finally \u2013 Infrastructure Week!\u2019: After Months Of Crises, Biden Gets A Win With GOP Help)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a compete and total failure on Friday night by Republican leadership. There is no other way to put it,\u201d the member said, calling on leadership to \u201cexplain why they should continue to lead even the rest of this Congress if they can\u2019t hold those people together.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7319043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"38\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7319043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 NOVEMBER 06: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference in the State Dinning Room at the White House on November 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. The President is speaking after his Infrastructure bill was finally passed in the House of Representatives after negotiations with lawmakers on Capitol Hill went late into the night. (Photo by Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aside from frustration over the 13 Republicans who voted \u201cyes\u201d and leadership\u2019s inability to get the party on the same page, Republicans are also angered by a third aspect: The lack of retribution for those <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/06\/13-house-republicans-infrastructure-bill\/\">who voted for<\/a> Biden\u2019s bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeadership tends to give a pass to some of those who are more left leaning in our party and they knew there were some who were gonna be voting this way \u2026 basically leadership is gonna give these people a pass, which I think is a huge mistake,\u201d the first Republican congressman explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf [House Speaker] <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/02\/pelosi-infrastructure-vote-pushed-end-of-october\/\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> lost 13 members of her caucus, you\u2019d be identifying the bodies based on their dental records,\u201d another remarked, suggesting Pelosi wields a far more forceful position within her party.<\/p>\n<p>While some Republicans speculated that this particular vote would be enough to affect McCarthy\u2019s future within the party, others seemed less sure. One Republican congressman described the party as having developed \u201ca culture of losing\u201d and lamented that this Congress would not press McCarthy in any significant way, despite the frustration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not so convinced that our conference is going to give leadership a pass,\u201d another one of the Republican lawmakers speculated to the Caller. \u201cWe\u2019ll wait and see, but there\u2019s a lot of frustration. A lot of anger, and a lot of people who understand that leadership could have and should have done more to stand in the way of a massive socialist bill being tagged onto the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, as one member of the Republican conference explained, the GOP is sitting at a crossroads that\u2019s been compounded by Friday\u2019s vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a growing sense that there needs to be a significant change with respect to the strategic direction of the conference,\u201d the member said. \u201cIt\u2019s not enough to be just \u2018anti-Biden, anti-Democrat, we win because it\u2019s midterms.\u2019 You can\u2019t assume that. There\u2019s a growing sense, Friday night being front and center, that we need something more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While a few Republican lawmakers expressed open frustration online against their 13 colleagues who voted to pass President Joe Biden\u2019s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill late last week, the anger within &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"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-995459","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\/995459","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995459\/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=995459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}