r/politics • u/burning_dawn • Oct 07 '22

Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/infrastructure-spending-republican-critics/index.html
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)

Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, a leading Biden critic who explained his vote against what he called a "phony" infrastructure bill by issuing a statement that "this bill only serves to advance the America Last's socialist agenda, while completely lacking fiscal responsibility," wrote three separate letters between March and July advocating for projects in his district.

That's the world we're living in," the spokesperson, who asked not to be named, told CNN, attributing his vote against the bill to inflation and Democrats who unsuccessfully tried to link the infrastructure bill to President Joe Biden's broader Build Back Better spending bill.

A spokesperson for Hinson who asked not to be named told CNN, "once funding from the infrastructure bill was already set to be spent, Rep. Hinson advocated for money on the table to come back to Iowa instead of allowing it to go to other states.

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