The White House is targeting the home states of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., first in its push to sell President Joe Biden's $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan to show how the funding, if approved, will help their states.
Both lawmakers, however, are already fighting back agains the measure, calling it a Democrat laundry list of progressive demands rather than a true infrastructure plan that includes much more than the restoration of roads and bridges, reports Axios.
"I'm going to fight them every step of the way because I think this is the wrong prescription for America," McConnell said of the infrastructure plan at a news conference in Kentucky, nd McCarthy has released a memo accusing Biden of planning a "kitchen sink of wasteful progressive demands."
In fact sheets from the White House, the administration outlines how the states will benefit. -- excerpt, rest at link above --
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