House GOP leadership's anti-infrastructure pitch is reportedly that it's a 'gateway drug to reconciliation'

Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise.
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House Republican leadership is not sitting out the chamber's eventual vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. On the contrary, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) have launched a "pretty intense" campaign to make sure most of the GOP caucus opposes the bill, CNN reports.

Their pitch? A source familiar with the whip operation told CNN they're framing the infrastructure bill as a "gateway drug" to the larger $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill that Democrats are also aiming to pass. Republicans are pretty much universally opposed to that measure.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.