Linking infrastructure and reconciliation bills ‘would devastate America’s economy’: Rep. Scalise
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise told “Sunday Morning Futures” that Democrats are “tying the infrastructure package hostage” to the reconciliation bill and argued that linking the two “would devastate America’s economy.”
On Saturday President Biden told reporters that “everybody is frustrated” after two massive pieces of legislation stalled in Congress, as well as a debt limit increase, amid infighting among a divided Democratic caucus.
Biden spoke to reporters on his way to Delaware for the weekend after left-wing Democrats had moved to scupper the passage of a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill if it was voted on before a separate $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill packed with left-wing priorities on social spending and climate changes, along with significant tax increases for wealthier Americans.
The latter bill would have been advanced using the budget reconciliation process, meaning it would only need 50 votes in…
