Mitch McConnell Rips President Joe Biden Over Breakdown in Infrastructure Talks
On 6/9/21 at 1:59 PM EDT
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ripped the Biden administration on Wednesday for cutting off infrastructure negotiations with U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican who has had multiple conversations directly with President Joe Biden in recent days to try to hash out an agreement that GOP lawmakers could get behind. [Capito] s led several of our colleagues in literally exhaustive efforts to put a bipartisan deal within reach, the Kentucky Republican said on the Senate floor on Wednesday. An agreement requires that actually each side is willing to give up some of what it wants, and as we learned yesterday, President Biden is unwilling to let go of some of the most radical promises he made to the left wing of his party.
Fauci Says He Never Changed Mind About Lab Leak Theory, Equates Criticism With Attacks on Science
On 6/9/21 at 4:15 PM EDT
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top adviser to President Joe Biden on the COVID-19 pandemic, says he hasn t changed his mind about the origins of the novel coronavirus outbreak as more experts lean into a theory that it originated in an experimental lab in Wuhan, China, that has received funding from the United States government. Most of the scientists that I know feel that the most likely origin is a natural origin from an animal reservoir to human, Fauci said on MSNBC s
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Democratic voters were more likely to list an infrastructure bill as a high priority, with roughly 49 percent of Democrats polled labeling it as being of top importance compared to 23 percent of GOP voters who said the same.
Several other issues rated as higher priorities for voters than infrastructure: 42 percent identified the federal budget deficit as the top priority, 41 percent said it was health care reform and 37 percent listed immigration.
Still, the highest priority issue among voters was stimulating economic growth to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, with 55 percent putting it in the top spot.
The survey of nearly 2,000 registered voters has an overall margin of error of 2 percentage points.