Senate Minority Leader McConnell: Infrastructure Plan Is Lumped Up List Of Leftist Priorities

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) condemned Joe Biden’s $2.5 trillion infrastructureplan while calling it a list of the left’s priciest priorities.

While speaking on the Senate floor Monday, the Kentucky lawmaker criticized Biden for only allocating 6 percent of funds to basic infrastructure projects like roads and bridges.

“It’s not remotely targeted toward what Americans think they are getting when politicians campaign on infrastructure,” he stated.

The massive spending bill includes $20 billion to apparently “reconnect neighborhoods cut off by historic investments and ensure new projects increase opportunity, advance racial equity, environmental justice and promote affordable access.”

It also includes a $5 billion increase in funding for climate-focused research, a $10 billion investment for Civilian Climate Corps and $174 billion to “win the electric vehicle market.” Not to mention, $40 billion to a new dislocated workers program and sector-based training.

McConnell said the Biden administration is trying to change the very definition of infrastructure.

“But instead of coming up with a better bill, Democrats have decided it’s the English language that has to change,” he asserted. “They are embarking on an Orwellian campaign to convince everybody that any government policy whatsoever can be labeled infrastructure.”