“That’s absolutely nuts,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said of talk in the House of stripping Republicans who voted for the infrastructure bill of their committee seats.
“The infrastructure bill was bipartisan. It was voted for by Mitch McConnell,” he said, arguing that it will now be tougher for Democratic leaders to persuade centrists such as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to vote for a bigger climate and social spending bill because funding for popular hard infrastructure priorities moved separately.
“Republicans were smart to support it,” insisted Romney, who was one of 19 Senate Republicans who voted for the infrastructure legislation.
Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, called the threatened retaliation against House Republicans “draconian.”
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