Marjorie Taylor Greene praises ‘Squad’ members for rejecting infrastructure bill

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene praised the six members of the “Squad” for their rejection of President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.

Greene praised Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Jamaal Bowman in her tweet, describing them as having “more balls” than the 13 Republicans who voted in support of the infrastructure bill.

“6 Democrats did more than these 13 traitor Republicans to stop Biden’s fake Infrastructure bill by voting NO,” Greene wrote in a post on Twitter Friday night, calling out the Republicans who voted in favor of the bill. “They have more balls than these R’s.”

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The refusal from the six members to vote in favor of the infrastructure bill follows their promise to vote against it unless there was also a vote on the Democrats’ reconciliation social spending bill. The reconciliation spending bill had previously been marked at $3.5 trillion, but it was eventually scaled down to $1.75 trillion over other members’ objections.

Several Republicans also crossed the aisle in their votes, with 13 GOP members bucking party lines in supporting the bill. Among the 13 Republicans who voted in favor of the infrastructure bill were Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, New York Rep. Andrew Garbarino, Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, and New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew.

Several Republicans, including Kinzinger and Garbarino, took to Twitter to justify their votes on the infrastructure bill.

“Infrastructure=communism is a new one,” Kinzinger said in response to another tweet from Greene. “Eisenhower’s interstate system should be torn up or else the commies will be able to conveniently drive.”

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Introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, the infrastructure bill passed in the Senate in August but was later held up in the House before earning passage in the lower chamber late Friday night. The GOP leadership was sharply opposed to the measure, whipping votes against the infrastructure bill by arguing it went hand-in-hand with the separate reconciliation spending bill supported by the Left.