Chris Wallace Grills GOP Senator for Not Supporting Programs That Would Help His State
Senator John Barrasshole started his Fox News Sunday appearance blasting President Biden and the Democrats but ended up defending himself to host Chris Wallace, who kept pointing out the ways Barrasso’s constituents would benefit from programs in Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
Barrasso began the interview by saying that Biden “surrendered to the radical wing of his party” on Friday when the president went to Capitol Hill to meet with the Democratic caucus about the path forward for two pieces of legislation — the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill that includes “soft infrastructure” priorities such as child tax credits, child care and climate change. Currently, the moderate and progressive wings of the party are in disagreement, as progressives refuse to vote for the bipartisan package without simultaneously moving forward the reconciliation bill that a small number of moderates say they won’t support. Barrasso has voted against both.
Wallace asked Barrasso to explain his opposition. “As you point out, 19 of your fellow Republican senators voted for the bipartisan infrastructure plan in the Senate. You did not. You called the reconciliation bill a ‘freight train to socialism.’ You and all of the Republicans were refusing the normal course—the bipartisan passage of raising the debt limit. So I guess the question to you and a lot of Republicans is are you viewing these issues on the merits or are you just playing partisan politics?” the host said.
Barrasso responded that he had “concerns with some of the gimmicks that were used to fund” the bipartisan bill, adding that it cost too much and would worsen inflation.
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