Republican Dave McCormick Would Repeal Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

Dave McCormick, a wealthy former hedge fund manager and leading Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, would vote to repeal President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill, he said on a pro-Trump radio show in mid-November.

During McCormick’s appearance on “The John Fredericks Show,” Fredericks asked McCormick how he would “stand firm to cut spending” once in the Senate.

“The No. 1 thing you do with a Senate majority and a House majority and a Republican president in the White House is you roll back all those incredible, expensive Biden bills — the infrastructure bill, the Build Back Better — all of that stuff, that’s the money that’s driving this huge uptick in inflation,” McCormick responded.

McCormick, who failed to capture the GOP Senate nomination in 2022, is hoping to unseat Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) in November. A victory for McCormick could virtually ensure a Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate during a cycle when Democrats are playing defense on a difficult map.

But McCormick’s opposition to the infrastructure bill — and promise to repeal it — exposes him to political attack from Democrats, who are likely to paint him as a hardline conservative out of step with voters in a purple battleground state. (Contrary to McCormick’s claim, Build Back Better did not become law; a significantly scaled back bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, did.)

The infrastructure bill passed Congress in August 2021 with the support of 19 Republican senators and 13 Republican House members , including Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, who hails from the Philadelphia suburbs.

“Senator Casey fought to make sure the bipartisan infrastructure law will deliver thousands of good-paying jobs in Pennsylvania for years to come,” said Maddy