GOP senators warn they could pull support for Biden deal
By Jordain Carney - 06/25/21 02:52 PM EDT
Republican senators are warning that they could drop their support for a bipartisan infrastructure framework amid growing GOP fury over President Biden's plan to link it to a Democratic-only bill.
GOP Sens. Jerry Moran (Kan.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) both signaled on Friday that their support, and eventual vote, for the bipartisan infrastructure deal — announced at the White House just yesterday — is tenuous if Democrats insist it has to move in tandem with a larger Democratic-only infrastructure plan.
"No deal by extortion! It was never suggested to me during these negotiations that President Biden was holding hostage the bipartisan infrastructure proposal unless a liberal reconciliation package was also passed," Graham tweeted on Friday.
Moran separately told Bloomberg News that he was wavering on supporting the bipartisan package and wants assurances from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) that they will oppose a reconciliation package that allows Democrats to pass a second, larger infrastructure bill on their own without GOP support.
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