Chamber of Commerce withdraws support of $1.2T infrastructure deal after GOP freeze out

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is withdrawing its support of the Senate-passed $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill just hours after Punchbowl News reported House Republicans were booting it from its strategy calls, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: The Chamber's chief policy officer, Neil Bradley, announced the policy shift in a letter to its Board of Directors on Monday. The pretense for his decision: President Biden formally linking the "hard" infrastructure bill with the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package during a meeting with House Democrats on Friday.

Between the lines: The two bills, which are seen as the top priorities in fulfilling Biden's agenda, have long been linked. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has described them as "companion bills."

This is the prime reason House Republican leaders have been whipping against the bipartisan bill, despite multiple GOP senators having voted for it in the Senate — including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/chamber-commerce-withdraws-support-1-005806170.html

So like the NRA they're nothing but another GOP lobbying group.

[Celerity]

1. Fuck those RW pricks

[JohnSJ]

2. The us chamber of commerce has always be a right wing organization

[Celerity]

4. +1

[lagomorph777]

3. Yup.

Chamber of Crooks

[Celerity]

7. Chamber of Cuckservatives

[Etherealoc1]

5. Well then, let's go it alone...

put the bills together under 1 bill and pass the Mofo under reconciliation

[dumbcat]

10. Yeah, I don't know what's holding them up

Nancy should just combine them, schedule the vote, and DO IT!

Oh, wait ............

[spanone]

6. their support meant nothing

[gratuitous]

8. Oh good

I was worried that we might have to adjust to a U.S. Chamber of Commerce that didn't bellyache about the lack of skilled workers in the labor pool, their unwillingness to work for poverty wages, and the need for more tax cuts for corporations if they broke with the Republicans and supported an infrastructure bill.

[Fullduplexxx]

9. How quickly they surrendered