Republican Pennsylvania Senator, Pat Toomey, was not among the 19 Republicans who voted with all the Senate Democrats who passed the $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Package on Tuesday (August 10).
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell broke with the majority of his fellow Republicans and was a supporter of the bill.
Former President, Donald Trump expressed strong opposition to the bill and had threatened to “Primary” any Republicans who voted for it.
Toomey, who will not be running for re-election in 2022, said in a statement:
There is a need to expand and maintain our nation’s real, physical infrastructure, which is why the federal government spends billions on these projects every year, but this legislation is too expensive, too expansive, too unpaid for, and too threatening to the innovative cryptocurrency economy.
Federal infrastructure spending should be driven by a reasoned assessment of our nation’s needs, but this process was driven by Democratic political imperatives rather than necessity.