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Vintage Mitch McConnell

June 3, 2021 at 11:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Punchbowl News: “The Senate minority leader first lambasted Biden’s American Jobs Plan and American Family Plan as too expensive and too full of liberal goals.”

“McConnell then laid out what Republicans would be willing to do, which was very, very far from what Democrats had proposed.”

“McConnell empowered Capito to cut a deal with Biden. McConnell also made clear Wednesday morning in Kentucky that he’d spoken to Capito before the meeting with Biden. The translation there: Capito isn’t freelancing.”

“Now the entire Senate Republican caucus has rallied around a slimmed-down infrastructure bill, leaving the two sides miles apart. McConnell has rallied his colleagues around where he wanted to go, giving them an alternative they can talk about back home. McConnell 101.”

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