Elsewhere in his Sunday interview, Toomey chastised Dems—and “pseudo-celebrity” Jon Stewart—for their intense push for a veterans’ relief bill.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) had no kind words on Sunday for Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s surprise decision to back a reconciliation bill set to revive Democrats’ domestic agenda.
“It really looks to me like Joe Manchin has been taken to the cleaners,” Toomey told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union, attacking the bill’s provisions on corporate taxes, health-care subsidies, and climate change funds.
“And what does Joe get for this? He gets the promise that someday in the future, they’ll pass some kind of legislation about energy infrastructure,” he said. “So this is a disaster. This is going to make our recession worse. It’s gonna make inflation worse. It’s not going to do any good. I’m really surprised that Joe agreed to this.”
Toomey’s criticism mirrored that of several of his Republican colleagues after Manchin revealed his surprise support for the Inflation Reduction Act last week, a $700 billion bill that partly funds some of President Joe Biden’s top domestic priorities on climate and the corporate tax rate. Some within the GOP, who worked with Democrats on a semiconductor bill without knowing this was coming, likened it to a betrayal.
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