The Senate agreed to wrap up the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill through a test vote. In the 67–27 vote, 18 Republicans joined with Democrats to support moving forward on the legislation, clearing a key procedural hurdle. More votes, mostly on amendments, are needed before the Senate can pass the bill. It’s unclear when the…
Senate Advances to Wrap Up $1 Trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
McConnell Makes GOP Demands for Government-Funding Deal
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday announced the GOP has its demands for Congress on future government spending bills. “When it comes to floor consideration, we cannot and will not start planting individual trees before we have bipartisan consensus on the shape of the forest,” McConnell said during a speech on the Senate…
Trump: McConnell, Republicans Should Ditch Bipartisan Talks Until They Have Majority
Former President Donald Trump in a Monday statement called on Senate Republicans to ditch talks with Democrats on a bipartisan infrastructure deal until they can retake the majority. As Senate negotiators attempt to finalize a deal on the infrastructure bill, which is believed to be around $1 trillion, Trump said that GOP lawmakers “are being…
McConnell Warns of Lockdowns If More People Don’t Get COVID-19 Vaccines
More Americans should get vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19 or the country could see harsh measures imposed this fall, the top Republican in Congress said Wednesday. “It never occurred to me after three highly effective vaccines were developed in under a year that we’d have difficulty getting Americans to take the shots. But…
McConnell Warns of What ‘We Went Through Last Year’ If More People Don’t Get COVID-19 Vaccines
More Americans should get vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19 or the country could see harsh measures imposed this fall, the top Republican in Congress said Wednesday. “It never occurred to me after three highly effective vaccines were developed in under a year that we’d have difficulty getting Americans to take the shots. But…
McConnell: Flipping House, Senate in 2022 Would Force Biden to Be a Moderate
Republicans regaining control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections would put them in a position to check President Joe Biden, a Democrat, the top Republican in the Senate said Thursday. “What direction we take is largely going to be decided by the election in 2022,” Senate Minority Leader…
Trump: Republicans, McConnell Shouldn’t Back Biden Infrastructure Deal
Former President Donald Trump criticized Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), for engaging with the White House and some Democrats for a bipartisan infrastructure deal. Last week, President Joe Biden said the White House came to an agreement with about a dozen Republican senators on a smaller $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal. Biden’s infrastructure…
McConnell Says He Needs to See How Infrastructure Deal Will Be ‘Credibly Paid For’ Before Backing
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters on Monday that he remains undecided on whether to back the bipartisan infrastructure plan due to concerns about how the measure will be paid for. McConnell made the remarks at a press conference in Louisville, in response to a reporter asking whether he would support the $1.2…
McConnell: Manchin’s Election Reform Proposal Still ‘Rotten To The Core’
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday said he believes all Republicans will oppose Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) “compromise” on the Democratic party’s election-related bill that has been dubbed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other top Democrats as the “For the People Act.” McConnell in a statement pushed back against Manchin’s slimmed-down…
McConnell: GOP Would Likely Block Biden Supreme Court Pick in 2024
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suggested that Republicans, if they controlled the Senate in 2024, would not advance President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee due to the proximity of the election. In 2016, McConnell and Senate Republicans received blowback from Democrats when President Barack Obama when they would not give a hearing to Obama’s…
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