Trump Slams McConnell as “Overrated” Ahead of Infrastructure Bill’s Passage

Former President Donald Trump lashed retired astatine Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), criticizing him for supporting a bipartisan infrastructure bundle that is acceptable to the walk the Senate.

“Nobody volition ever recognize wherefore Mitch McConnell allowed this non-infrastructure measure to beryllium passed. He has fixed up each of his leverage for the large whopper of a measure that volition follow,” Trump wrote successful a statement. “I person softly said for years that Mitch McConnell is the astir overrated antheral successful politics—now I don’t person to beryllium quiescent anymore.”

“He is moving truthful hard to springiness Biden a victory, present they’ll spell for the large one, including the biggest taxation increases successful the past of our Country,” Trump added.

McConnell is acceptable to ballot for the bill, which the Senate volition ballot connected astatine 11 a.m. today.

The legislation, known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, “invests $110 cardinal successful backing toward roads, bridges and large projects, $66 cardinal successful rider and freight rail, $65 cardinal to rebuild the electrical grid, $65 cardinal to grow broadband Internet access, and $39 cardinal to modernize and grow transit systems,” according to a CNN report, and adjacent includes “$55 cardinal for h2o infrastructure, $15 cardinal of which volition beryllium directed toward replacing pb pipes.”

The measure cleared the last Senate procedural hurdle yesterday; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has said that Democrats volition adjacent enactment on the details of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation measure arsenic soon arsenic the ballot is complete.