Lindsey Graham says president made the GOP look like ‘f***ing idiots’ by tying $1.2trillion deal to huge reconciliation package after ‘suicide mission’ negotiations
- Lindsey Graham said Biden has made the GOP look like ‘f***ing idiots’ by publicly tying the infrastructure deal to whether his American Families Plan passes
- ‘I don’t mind bipartisanship, but I’m not going to do a suicide mission,’ Graham said in backing out of the group of 11 Republicans supporting the bipartisan deal
- Biden said Thursday after announcing a deal was reached: ‘If this is the only thing that comes to me, I’m not signing it’
- But Republicans claim there was never any ‘side deal’ involving reconciliation
- Senator Bill Cassidy, one of the five Republicans who negotiated the deal, said he felt ‘blindsided’ by the all-or-nothing approach
- Biden stepped out of the White House Thursday with a group of 10 senators from both parties to announce ‘we have a deal’ on an infrastructure package
- ‘We made serious compromises on both ends,’ Biden said
- The deal amounts to $1.2 trillion in infrastructure spending over eight years
Lindsey Graham said Joe Biden made Republicans like look ‘f***ing idiots’ as GOP outraged ensues after the president tied the bipartisan infrastructure deal to passing his American Families Plan.
‘Most Republicans could not have known that. There’s no way,’ Graham told Politico. ‘You look like a f***ing idiot now.’
‘I don’t mind bipartisanship, but I’m not going to do a suicide mission,’ the South Carolina senator added.
Biden said Thursday of the bipartisan infrastructure bill: ‘If this is the only thing that comes to me, I’m not signing it.’
Graham was one of the 11 Republicans who supported the bipartisan infrastructure deal – but he is now backing out.
Most of that group met virtually Friday morning to plot next moves.
‘There was general displeasure and anger,’ said a senior GOP aide who listened in, noting Graham was relatively quiet on the call.
A group of 10 bipartisan lawmakers lined up behind Biden on Thursday to announce they reached a deal on an infrastructure bill. But shortly after, Republicans were infuriated when Biden said: ‘If this is the only thing that comes to me, I’m not signing it’
Another aide to one of the 11 senators told Politico: ‘Demanding that we didn’t pass the bipartisan deal unless reconciliation was passed first was never part of the deal.’