infrastructure

Eighteen Senate Republicans voted Sunday to clear the final hurdle before a floor vote to advance the so-called “bipartisan” infrastructure bill.

In a Sunday interview with FNC’s “Fox Reports,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) addressed claims by the Democrats that he is slowing down the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill with his opposition to the legislation.

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) announced his support for the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill Sunday after voting against the bill.

MANCHESTER New Hampshire — Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that Democrats are using Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that has provided quasi-amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens since 2012, to leverage large scale amnesty. 

The so-called bipartisan “infrastructure” bill, backed by Senate Democrats and 18 Senate Republicans, would reward blue states with federal money for driving up immigration levels to the United States.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) claimed, despite evidence to the contrary, that the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill does not contain provisions advancing Critical Race Theory (CRT).

Sen. Bill Hagerty’s (R-TN) office said in a statement Sunday that Democrats, not the Tennessee conservative, are blocking the chamber from voting on vital amendments to the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill.

The so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill has stalled Saturday as Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) leads the GOP opposition.

Former President Donald Trump issued a statement Saturday slamming the infrastructure bill as a “gift to the Democrat Party, compliments of Mitch McConnell.”

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) defended his support of the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill by leaving out key context surrounding the “woke agenda” in the mammoth $1.2 trillion, 2,702-page legislation.

Ohio Senate Republican candidate J.D. Vance blasted on Friday a proposed cryptocurrency regulation from Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), which President Joe Biden has backed, saying it would punish Ohioans to big tech’s benefit.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) effort to have the Senate vote on the $1.2 trillion infrastructure fell apart Thursday night after many lawmakers objected.

Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) has delayed Thursday President Joe Biden’s infrastructure deal in the Senate for a final vote over concerns the legislation would increase the federal deficit by $256 billion. The final vote could now be delayed into early next week.

A “disastrous” amendment backed by President Joe Biden and proposed by Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Mark Warner (D-VA) could crush the cryptocurrency industry, lawmakers and industry officials say.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Thursday that the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill would add $256 billion to the deficit over ten years. 

The University of Pennsylvania Penn-Wharton Budget Model found Thursday that the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill would “have no significant impact” on economic growth.

Mark Morgan, former acting CBP commissioner, said Democrats plan to include an amnesty proposal within ostensibly infrastructure-focused bill.

Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) proposed an amendment to address concerns over the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill’s provision to tax and regulate the cryptocurrency industry.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) comments Tuesday indicate he would likely back the $1.2 trillion so-called infrastructure bill, according to a Washington Post reporter. 

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), gave a stark warning to vulnerable Democrats last week during a closed-door lunch, saying the Democrats could lose the House, according to a report.

Senate conservatives railed against the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill Tuesday, charging that the legislation is the “first step” to Democrats’ other $5.5 trillion “tax-and-spend liberal wish list.”

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) proposed an amendment to the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill Tuesday that would strip any state of infrastructure funding if the governor was found to have sexually harassed employees.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has weaponized the August recess to try and fast track the senators into voting for the so-called infrastructure bill.

Far-left House Democrats are teetering on the “infrastructure” bill, calling it “crap” and perhaps not “in the interest of the public good,” a sign not all House Democrats presumably support the bill in the Senate that includes far-left provisions. 

The bill would leave the rail company more reliant on taxpayer subsidies and more vulnerable to future downturns.

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement Monday that the cryptocurrency tax in the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill would be “dire” for American jobs.

Joe Biden promised that the “materials and products” in his infrastructure plan would be Made in America. But the bill currently drafted contains a huge loophole that can send those jobs to China.

Several senators attended an event on Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) houseboat over the weekend, and one of the attendees, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), announced Monday he tested positive for coronavirus.

Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) slammed the so-called “infrastructure” bill in a memo released on Twitter calling the bill “essentially a Green New Deal Lite.”

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, released a statement that slammed the so-called “infrastructure” bill’s provision to tax cryptocurrency as “unworkable.”