ICYMI: BREITBART – SUPPORTERS OF INFRASTRUCTURE BILL “WADING INTO DANGEROUS POLITICAL WATERS”

Washington, D.C. – In case you missed it, Breitbart’s Sean Moran wrote on the Club for Growth statement and polling on the recently released infrastructure bill.

Click here to read the Club for Growth polling and statement.

Click here to read the Breitbart story.

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Poll: Americans Do Not Support Political Gamesmanship on Infrastructure

Breitbart, Sean Moran, 8/2/21

Lawmakers who support the so-called “infrastructure” plan are wading into dangerous political waters with voters, new polling suggests.

Club for Growth released new polling Monday showing 64 percent of voters, including 49 percent of Democrats, agree with “Ending continuous deficit spending, and requiring that the federal budget be balanced,” while only 18 percent oppose.

The so-called “infrastructure” deal, which was exclusively released by Breitbart News Sunday evening, already costs $1.2 trillion and “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she will [not] bring the bipartisan bill for a vote unless it also comes with the $3.5 trillion reconciliation infrastructure bill.”

The polling also suggests that 60 percent of voters, including 55 percent of Democrats, support:

…reducing traffic by making it easier to repair our roads, bridges, and airports by speeding up environmental impact reviews that are often used to delay projects for years and eliminating requirements that force the federal government to often pay higher labor costs than private companies or state and local governments.

Only 13 percent of those polled oppose this statement.

Club for Growth President David McIntosh said of the polling:

All Americans, including Democrats, prefer to end out-of-control spending and onerous regulations, and the infrastructure bill does the exact opposite, which is why we urge all Senators to oppose it. … This bill is a gateway drug to the reconciliation package and trillions in new spending that we don’t need and can’t afford.