Toomey says Manchin "got taken to the cleaners" in deal with Schumer

Washington — Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican from Pennsylvania, criticized a new climate, health care and tax package unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of Pennsylvania last week, saying Sunday that Manchin was "taken to the cleaners" in the agreement.

In an interview with "Face the Nation," Toomey pushed back on claims from Manchin and other Senate Democrats that their plan will lower historic inflation and reduce the deficit, saying the bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act, will do neither.

"I think he got taken to the cleaners. He's agreeing to all this bad policy in return for which he's been promised that there's going to be some kind of pro-energy infrastructure bills sometime in the future," Toomey said. "But first of all, I thought we did that in the infrastructure bill. Secondly, what is the text? But most importantly, why isn't that in this bill? And the answer is because Democrats don't support it. And so, this is going to do a lot of harm and there's not going to be a corresponding benefit."