House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the Biden administration continues to govern without any input from the Republican Party, breaking a campaign promise from President Joe Biden.
“If I look at the 100 days, it’s more like a bait-and-switch,” McCarthy told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace.
The California Republican said that instead of governing as a “bipartisan,” he has “governed as a socialist” and refuses to work with Republicans.
The comments come as Biden looks to rally members of Congress to pass his $2.3 trillion infrastructure bill, which he says comes without any communication with Republicans.
In President Biden’s first 100 days, he’s pulled a complete bait-and-switch.
The Bait → He promised to govern with bipartisanship.
The Switch → He’s governed as a socialist. pic.twitter.com/F9QTVrAEFz— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) April 25, 2021
“I have not met with the president one time, nor had one conversation,” he said.
The Republican leader said he was willing to speak with the president on how the administration can re-center the bill to repair roads and bridges — an idea with bipartisan support.
“Less than 6% in the infrastructure goes to infrastructure,” McCarthy said. “Republicans would be the first one that would work with him, but I think the very first thing we would need to do [is] define what infrastructure is: roads, bridges, airports, Broadcom?”
“We would get this done,” he added.
Biden’s infrastructure plan is already unpopular among many people, with only 49% of respondents favoring it in a recent Fox News poll.
“But I think when America found out that just 6% is going to the roads, that they’re not going to be built for more than a decade, that we spend more on subsidizing electric cars than roads, bridges, and airports in this bill, I don’t think that’s going to be popular,” McCarthy said.
While Democrats have enough votes in the House to pass the bill without any Republican support, they face an uphill battle in the Senate — where they cannot afford to lose a single vote.
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Centrist Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who often finds himself to be the deciding vote for whether a proposal passes, has supported McCarthy’s dialog about using the infrastructure bill to focus on “conventional” infrastructure.
“What we think the greatest need we have now that can be done in a bipartisan way is conventional infrastructure, whether it’s the water, sewer, roads, bridges, internet — things that we know need to be repaired, be fixed,” Manchin said.
