Laura Ingraham tells GOP senator ‘you guys got played’ on infrastructure bill

Fox News host Laura Ingraham and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) traded verbal blows on Ingraham’s prime-time program Monday night over the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package currently being debated in the Senate.

After “The Ingraham Angle” host echoed small-government Republican complaints that the bill is a “Trojan horse” for massive Democratic Party spending projects, she asked Cassidy — one of the lead negotiators of the package — if he had read the 2,702-page bill. “My staff and I have read it totally,” Cassidy responded before adding: “And defending it, my gosh, why wouldn’t you want this, as one of my colleagues said?