Top GOP senator: 'Far-left Democrats are driving the bus and Joe Biden is just along for the ride'
By Joseph Choi - 10/03/21 10:30 AM EDT
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) lambasted President Biden on Sunday for his inability to broker a compromise between the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill and a $3.5 trillion reconciliation spending package.
"What we're seeing is like watching an episode of 'The Twilight Zone,' I thought Joe Biden went to the Hill on Friday to try to get that bipartisan infrastructure bill passed and instead he surrendered to the radical wing of his party and now you have this big government, socialism, reckless spending bill being basically used to hold hostage the things that the American people want: our roads and bridges, highways, all of those things," Barrasso said while appearing on "Fox News Sunday."
Barrasso argued that the wide margin with which the infrastructure bill passed through the Senate would have ensured that it would be signed by the sitting U.S. president by now, two months after.
"This was before Afghanistan, when the president lost a lot of political muscle. Now we're at a point where the president is weak and really, Bernie Sanders, the far-left Democrats are driving the bus and Joe Biden is just along for the ride," said Barrasso.
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