'Manchin, to his credit, is talking about inflation and questioning, I think, whether this needs to be done at all. The single biggest favor he could do for the country would be to defeat the whole thing.' 'That would take a lot of courage, and we'll see'
"Infrastructure is something we needed, unlike all the rest of what they're trying to do," said McConnell. "This infrastructure bill was simply written by a bipartisan group of Republicans and Democrats in the Senate. A completely separate measure, a separate bill about infrastructure."
McConnell made the case that Republicans had achieved their policy goals by unlinking the infrastructure bill from the social spending bill, separating the "sugar from the spinach" in order to make it harder for Democrats to pass Build Back Better bill once the infrastructure bill had been signed."I thought it was good for the country, and good for us politically, and the right thing to do," he said. "And just the way I predicted, that's the way it turned out.
After months of infighting, the House of Representatives will again seek to hold a vote on the Build Back Better bill next week as several House Democratic moderates have asked to see further information about the bill's fiscal impact before voting. But McConnell said the fight in the House is "irrelevant" compared to what happens in the Senate.and hopes they "can withstand the pressure" from the other 48 members of the Democratic caucus, all of whom supported a $3.
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