“To call this Covid relief is really false advertising…This is a Nancy Pelosi payoff to the liberal left.”

CASPER, WY – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) appeared on ABC’s “This Week” this morning to discuss the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion blue state bailout bill. Barrasso also talked about how there is an opportunity for Republicans and Democrats to come together on an infrastructure bill modeled after bipartisan legislation he introduced last Congress.

Below are key excerpts of the interview:

On Democrats’ $1.9 Trillion Blue State Bailout:

“To call this Covid relief is really false advertising. Only 9% of the money actually goes to defeating the virus. Only 1% of the money goes for vaccines. This is a Nancy Pelosi payoff to the liberal left. This is something she’s been working on a long time. So today we see her taking a victory lap to what is now known as the most progressive bill in the history of the United States, according to the White House, and the price of it shows that.

“We have done five bipartisan coronavirus bills. We have three vaccines that are very effective. That’s what President Biden has inherited, a recovering economy. So Republicans want to make sure people get shots in the arms, kids get back to school, people get back to work. But we are not going to stand with the Democrats as they try to exploit a crisis to send lots of money to big cities and to blue states and to really failed pension plans. This is not supposed to be a bailout. It’s supposed to be about helping get the disease behind us.”

Click here for video of Sen. Barrasso talking about Democrats’ $1.9 trillion bill.

On Potential for Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal:

“I’d really like to see bipartisanship on infrastructure because I chaired the committee in the last Congress that passed the highway bill. We also did the water bill, all of the issues of water as well as highway infrastructure. It was bipartisan. Bernie Sanders voted for it, and so did I. We got it to the House, and what did the House do? They replaced our highway bill with the Green New Deal.

“So they ignored what we have done in a bipartisan way. If they would take the model that we came up with in the committee and the Senate for highway and transportation, I think that’s a very good start. I talked with the Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about it, and I think that is the model in which we should move forward on transportation and infrastructure.”

Click here for video of Sen. Barrasso talking about potential bipartisan infrastructure deal.

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