AOC Blasts Senate GOP Over Infrastructure Deal for 'Bad Faith Negotiating'
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused the Republican Party of "bad faith" in negotiating the bipartisan infrastructure deal.
© Drew Angerer Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol on June 23, 2021 in Washington, DC.
Her criticism comes amid growing tension between Senate Republicans and the White House days after President Joe Biden said an agreement had been reached over the spending plan.
There has been a wavering among some Republicans over the move by Biden to tie the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework to the passage of another, larger spending package.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reported that Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) wanted to be assured that that centrist Democratic Senators Joe Manchin (D-W) and Krysten Sinema (D-AZ) would oppose the second bill.
Biden wants to introduce a plan to fund "human infrastructure" in the spending plan and said he would not sign either deal into law unless both are approved by Congress, a move which Lindsey Graham (R-S-C) branded as "extortion"
Moran has joined other Republicans who also said they would refuse to back a bipartisan deal if it's tied to another.
However, on Friday, Ocasio Cortez took aim at the GOP's conduct during the negotiations.
She tweeted: "Oh look, a receipt!" next to an image of a piece of paper. "Looks like it's good for returning the Senate GOP's excuses for bad faith negotiating."
Oh look, a receipt! Looks like it's good for returning the Senate GOP's excuses for bad faith negotiating https://t.co/puNh8mKGuo
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 25, 2021
An hour earlier, in a separate tweet, she wrote: "Wow, who could have possibly predicted that Senate Republicans were wasting months of a Dem majority's precious time negotiating in bad faith just to suddenly renege on a bipartisan agreement w/ new, mercurial demands after doing exactly the same w the Jan 6th commission."
This was a follow-up to a tweet in which she called for lawmakers to "move forward" in rebuilding infrastructure, lowering carbon emissions, extending medical coverage, "and serve the American people," she wrote, "that is bipartisan too, with 2 party support among the electorate."
The word faith has been a recurring motif in the discourse surrounding the negotiations for the spending proposal to fund roads, bridges, broadband, public transport and electric vehicle charging stations.
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was the latest Republican to criticize Biden linking the two measures, telling New Orleans' Fox 8 "that was not the understanding as we began upon these good faith negotiations."
He said that he hoped "we continue in good faith" and it would not end up "as if we crafted something just to give the president a point of leverage to get something that Republicans disagree with."
Newsweek has contacted the White House and Ocasio Cortez's office for comment.
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It's a sad state of affairs that we continue to elect such shallow self-absorbed people to Congress. She is like most extremists, refused to see anything good from the other side and ignores what is right in front of her. The extremist has to warp their reality to match what they want or their world comes to a complete halt. She has some good ideas but her refusal to compromise with others in Washington from the other side will doom her (IMO) to be disappointed in life.
The gop has negotiated in bad faith. Deal with that!
How so, JBB? Use facts and not feelings.
Thanks.
Joe Manchin was confident that at least ten gop senators he was negotiating with would agree to the compromise deals he had discussed with them but in the end zero republicans agreed...
That proves the negotiated in bad faith.
UM, there was a bipartisan agreement to the infrastructure bill. Manchin would have gotten 10 Senators, otherwise Biden would not have come out and said there was a deal if there wasn't.
Biden was the one who was in bad faith by saying he would not sign the BIPARTISAN infrastructure bill unless Congress passed the PARTISAN "human infrastructure" (whatever that is).
Read the seed above. It tells you everything you need to know......
Why bother? He has the AOC talking points that all he needs. Forget reality; that just gets in the way.
considering who the GOP negotiators were , i was wondering who would slip the "poison pill" in , mcconnel or biden or pelosi. seems it came from biden this time by tying it to a separate spending issue .
thankfully nothing had been voted on , passed and signed .
GOP does not have faith. GOP needs and depends on the fear of the other.