‘Audience at a Kid Rock concert?’: Cori Bush and AOC hit out at whiteness of infrastructure group

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Reps. Cori Bush and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have hit out at the lack of diversity in the group of senators who were involved in bipartisan infrastructure negotiations. “Is this the Bipartisan Infrastructure Group or the audience at a Kid Rock concert?” Ms Bush wrote in a tweet on Wednesday, followed by #NegotiationsSoWhite. “Good luck tanking your own party’s investment on childcare, climate action, and infrastructure while presuming you’ll survive a 3 vote House margin – especially after choosing to exclude members of colour from negotiations and calling that a ‘bipartisan accomplishment,” wrote in response to comments from Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who helped lead the negotiations. Joe Biden’s “historic” bipartisan infrastructure deal will include “$550 billion in new federal investment in America’s infrastructure”.