Senate Republicans label Biden infrastructure plan a 'slush fund'
By Joseph Choi - 04/12/21 09:01 AM EDT Senate Republicans have reportedly sent around a memo calling President Biden’s ambitious infrastructure package a “slush fund,†ahead of a bipartisan meeting with the president at the White House on Monday.
Politico reports that the memo sent by the Senate Republican Conference to all GOP communications staffs blasts the White House for referring to the infrastructure proposal as a “jobs plan†and instead called it a “partisan plan to kill jobs and create slush funds on the taxpayer dime.â€
“Biden’s Partisan, Job-Crushing Slush Fund spends just 5% of the total $2.7 trillion on roads and bridges,†the lawmakers said in their memo, according to Politico.
“The rest is: a wish list of non-infrastructure spending on failed Obama policies; a dog’s breakfast of slush funds for Democrats’ pet projects without any accountability or transparency; expensive green energy mandates on Americans; a ban on the right to work; and a flurry of tax hikes that will to drive companies out of the U.S. and give China and Russia a say in the United States’ tax laws. As a result, the plan will eliminate at least 1 million jobs," they added.
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