Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO.) complained on Fox News that America’s roads and bridges are falling apart, but he was one of more that two dozen Republican senators who voted against a bipartisan infrastructure bill in 2021.
In an appearance on Fox News, Hawley complained to host Laura Ingraham that “nothing really works in America anymore.”
“I mean, our roads are falling apart, our bridges are falling down right in front of our eyes. Pieces of airplanes are falling out of the sky,” he continued. “And yet, at the same time, the Congress of the United States and the president, what do they want to do? Spend hundreds of billions of dollars more on foreign wars.”
Hawley was among the group of 30 Republican senators who voted against the massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure law in 2021 that included billions to rebuild roads, bridges, airports, protect public utility systems from cyberattacks and fund other major infrastructure projects.
At the time, Hawley called the bill “a woke, leftist bill that has been hijacked by the left.”
“This isn’t really an infrastructure bill at all. This is a woke, leftist bill that has been hijacked by the left, and it is full of left-wing politics,” he said. “Woke politics. Like gender-identity mandates and a potential gender-identity cause of action against nonprofits in this country and a racial-equity mandate, and the Green New Deal. All of that is in this bill.”
