Joe Biden's double-down double-cross

On Thursday, Joe Biden reached an agreement with Republicans on an infrastructure bill. Just 2 hours later, Biden blew that deal up, saying he wouldn't sign the bipartisan bill if he couldn't sign a Democrat-only reconciliation bill, too.

That evening, Mitch McConnell said that he went from optimistic to pessimistic in 2 hours. Predictably, Republicans are upset with the Democrats' double-cross:

Senate Republicans who negotiated an infrastructure deal with President Joe Biden celebrated Thursday, then woke up angry on Friday. 
The five GOP senators who cut a deal with moderate Democrats and the president are frustrated that Biden explicitly tied his signature on a bipartisan infrastructure bill to a separate Democrats-only measure, according to three Republican aides familiar with the dynamics. Biden has long said he wants to push forward both measures together, but Republicans viewed his Thursday comment as openness to vetoing the very same bill he'd just endorsed.

Republicans should emphatically reject this infrastructure deal. They should highlight that Democrats like Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi have never truly wanted a traditional infrastructure deal. This bunch wanted the infrastructure deal plus LBJ's Great Society 2.0 plan and AOC's Green New Deal. This is why they should reject this double-cross:

The president raised eyebrows this week after he and a group of 21 senators reached a $953 billion compromise to modernize U.S. infrastructure, but then said he would not sign the bill unless Congress also passed a broader Democratic spending package.
Biden has proposed a separate $1.8 trillion plan, titled the American Family Plan, which seeks to heavily invest in "education, health care, child care, and tax cuts for families, coupled with other investments in care for our seniors, housing, and clean energy."
If Biden wants the bipartisan infrastructure deal, he has to emphatically reject the nanny state bill. As a party, Republicans reject the nanny state bill. There's no reason to negotiate a bipartisan bill if Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and Sanders intend on still spending like idiots on things that we don't need and can't afford.

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