Donald Trump: Democrats “Played” Mitch McConnell “Like a fiddle” on the Reconciliation Bill

Donald Trump: Democrats “Played” Mitch McConnell “Like a fiddle” on the Reconciliation Bill

Former President Donald Trump ripped Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), stating Democrats bamboozled him on the $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act.

“Mitch McConnell got played like a fiddle with the vote today by the Senate Democrats,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday evening. ” First, he gave them a fake Infrastructure Bill. Then Guns. They never used it for negotiation purposes and gave it away for nothing!

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to reporters after a Republican policy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats outmaneuvered McConnell on the Inflation Reduction Act reconciliation bill after the passage of the $280 billion Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act on July 28.

Breitbart News reported:

While Republicans were split on the merits of the legislation, most Republicans, including House Republican leadership, did not want to pass the CHIPS legislation if Democrats were to pursue a reconciliation bill to pass climate change, Obamacare, and other leftist priorities. The CHIPS bill was passed this week by Senate Republicans and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY.

Soon after the bill was passed by the Senate, Schumer (D-WV), and Senator Joe Manchin, D-WV, announced that they had reached a deal on the Inflation Reduction Act. This is a reduced version of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better which Manchin opposed last fiscal year.

“We got our ass kicked. This is how it works. It looks like things got rinky dooed. That’s a Louisiana word for ‘screwed,'” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) after Manchin’s and Schumer’s agreement. And we were kicked. This is how my family sees it .”

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The Inflation Reduction Act passed the Senate Sunday along a partisan 50-50 vote, with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as the tiebreaker for the left, which advanced the legislation to the House of Representatives, as Breitbart News reported. “The Inflation Reduction Act focuses on reducing the deficit and curbing inflation, extending enhanced Obamacare subsidies, spending more than $300 billion on climate change programs, and allowing Medicare to negotiate the price of drugs.”

Contrary to its name, analysis from the Penn Wharton Budget Model found that the bill will have the opposite effect of reducing inflation in the short term, noting that it will “very slightly increase inflation until 2024 and decrease inflation thereafter.”

The Congressional Budget Office asserted the legislation’s “effect on inflation is negligible at best,” adding:

The estimate ranges from reducing inflation by 0.1 percent to increasing it by 0.1 percent in the near term. CBO has rejected the notion that this tax-and-spend proposal will reduce inflation. Democratic statements regarding the proposal are completely false and misleading.

Trump’s victory over Republicans has given him another opportunity to pursue McConnell, the GOP senatorial leader.

“Mitch has no clue–he is sooo terrible for the Republican Party!” Trump posted on Sunday.

On Wednesday, McConnell appeared on Fox New Channel’s Special Report and told host Brett Baier that he welcomes a challenger in a potential contest for GOP Senate leader.

” Look at it like this. He said, “I have been elected eight time without opposition.” “If there is an opponent to me, this job doesn’t belong to me. Every two years, there is a leader election. Anyone who wants to challenge me can

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