Nearly three years after passage, President Biden's infrastructure bill is pumping roughly $1.2 trillion into local projects, ranging from public transportation, to improvements in roads and bridges, to power plant upgrades. Now that an election year is upon us, deceitful Republicans who voted against the bill with the encouragement of the Malignant Loser are showing up locally to claim credit for the projects it created. Politico has details:
"Only 13 House GOP lawmakers voted for the 2021 law to fund roads, rails and bridges, a deal shaped in large part by Senate negotiators whom conservatives mistrust. Some of those 13 left Congress after facing threats from the right and vociferous criticism from former President Donald Trump, who said they should be 'ashamed of themselves.' The vast majority of Republicans opposed the bill due to the huge price tag, and many simply didn’t want to give President Joe Biden a win.
But almost three years later, the slow-moving machinery of the federal purse is kicking into gear. Highway projects in Iowa have already opened, more than a billion dollars have been pledged for a power plant upgrade in California and millions have been slated for a public transit project in South Carolina. There’s still a ways to go on most projects, but announcements and preparations have started across the country.
Those battleground Republicans who opposed the law are careful not to tout their personal involvement in it on Capitol Hill — instead, they’re showing up at opening ceremonies and praising the actions of local leaders." (our emphasis)
Politico reports on some of the vulnerable Congressional Republicans who voted against infrastructure projects and who are now praising them: Marianette Miller-Meeks (IA), Nancy Mace (SC), David Valadao (CA), and Michelle Steel (CA). The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is promising to target all of the hypocritical and dishonest MAGAts who are claiming credit for something they fought against:
“Since House Republicans have no record of accomplishments, they are trying to falsely take credit for ones that aren’t theirs,” said Viet Shelton, a spokesperson for House Democrats’ campaign arm. “This is exactly the sort of hypocritical behavior that the public hates, and the DCCC will be sure to remind voters of Republicans’ do-nothing agenda between now and November.”
Given the public's general unawareness of how their Congresscritter votes on most issues, it's important that this MAGAt hypocrisy be highlighted regularly from now to November.
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