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McConnell Credits Biden for Infrastructure Breakthrough

August 11, 2021 · 6:53 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell credited President Biden with helping to get the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed in the Senate, but said he doesn’t anticipate many more opportunities for Republicans to work with Democrats,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said McConnell: “There’s nothing to back you up like the promise of a presidential signatory, if you’re in the same party as the president. And so I think the president deserves a lot of credit for getting the Democrats open to reaching a bipartisan agreement on this bill.”

He added: “When the president ran for office, he said he was a moderate, so I was looking for some evidence of it. And we finally, finally found it.”

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