Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Republicans are proving themselves untrustworthy in policy negotiations.
About a month ago, 11 Senate Republicans secured a deal with the White House on a subset of infrastructure spending, while claiming to speak for enough of their colleagues to break a filibuster. But now there are murmurs of wavering. CNN reports that five of the 11 are having second thoughts, while Politico gets a couple specific senators on the record with their misgivings. Jerry Moran, a nondescript backbencher from Kansas, is in both pieces, and his presence is notable. Moran’s two complaints are consistent with why this bipartisan deal was always going to be a Lucy-and-the-football scenario.
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