House GOP members who voted for infrastructure bill face backlash from Republican colleagues
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But the GOP members faced harsh criticism afterward for supporting the bill, including from fellow Republican members. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., called her colleagues “RINOS” – Republicans in name only.
“RINOS just passed this wasteful $1.2 trillion dollar ‘infrastructure’ bill,” Boebert tweeted late Friday night. “Pelosi did not have the votes in her party to pass this garbage. Time to name names and hold these fake republicans accountable.”
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Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., added to the backlash, calling colleagues who voted for the bill “spineless” on Twitter.
“Only 3 days after voters rejected Biden’s failed policies in deep blue VA NJ, 13 spineless “Republicans” decided to tag-team with Democrats and helped pass their $5 TRILLION socialist takeover of our country,” Miller tweeted.
Others chimed in as well.
“I can’t believe Republicans just gave the Democrats their socialism bill,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., tweeted.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., tweeted that the Republicans who voted with Democrats “handed over their voting cards” to Pelosi to pass Biden’s “Communist takeover of America via so-called infrastructure.”
But Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who voted with Democrats Friday, hit back at Greene.
“Infrastructure = communism is a new one. Eisenhower’s interstate system should be torn up or else the commies will be able to conveniently drive! Red Dawn in real life,” Kinzinger tweeted.
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Reps. Nicole Malliotakis of New York, David B. McKinley of West Virginia, Fred Upton of Michigan, Tom Reed of New York, Chris Smith of New Jersey, Don Bacon of Nebraska, Jefferson Van Drew of New Jersey, Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, Don Young of Alaska, Brain Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and John Katko of New York were also among the Republicans who voted for the bipartisan measure.
Six House Democrats –Reps. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Jamaal Bowman of New York, Cori Bush of Missouri, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Talib of Michigan– voted against the bill. They had sought assurances that moderate Democrats would back Biden’s $1.85 trillion Build Back Better budget bill before voting on the infrastructure bill.
The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure package allocates funding to modernize highways, rebuild water lines and billions for electric vehicle charging stations – making it the larger transportation spending package in U.S. history.