“Folks, look, you can’t make this stuff up,' Biden joked in a speech on Friday. (via MaddowBlog)
but who now want money from the initiative spent in their states and districts.
Emmer’s hardly alone. Through a public records request, CNN highlighted dozens of similar pleas from Republicans who denounced the infrastructure package, only to quietly reach out to the Biden administration in the hopes that some of the funds from the law would benefit their constituents., which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, added, “Most members have not publicly mentioned the letters they sent petitioning for money from the bill they derided.
I’m not unsympathetic to this argument. In fact, it’s both sound and deeply rooted in the American tradition.Republican Rep.
It’d be one thing for GOP lawmakers to make the case that their constituents deserve their fair share of a larger federal pie, but it’s something else when Republicans condemn a bill as “socialism,” only to argue soon afterward that the socialism would work wonders in their communities.
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