{"id":38324,"date":"2021-08-02T18:20:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T01:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38324"},"modified":"2021-08-02T18:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T01:20:55","slug":"mcconnell-warns-democrats-against-artificial-timeline-for-infrastructure-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38324","title":{"rendered":"McConnell warns Democrats against &#8216;artificial timeline&#8217; for infrastructure deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) sent a warning shot on Monday over the bipartisan infrastructure deal, saying that Democrats shouldn\u2019t create an \u201cartificial timeline\u201d and that Republicans want to offer potential changes.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell, speaking from the Senate floor, called the roughly $1 trillion bipartisan deal a \u201cgood and important jumping off point\u201d but that it shouldn\u2019t be the Senate\u2019s \u201clast word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It] needs to be a robust and bipartisan process out here on the floor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenators on both sides expect and deserve opportunities to have a say and put their own state\u2019s imprints on this major bill,\u201d he added.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) sent a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38325,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38324\/revisions\/38325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}