“It really looks to me like Joe Manchin has gone to the cleaners,” Toomey told CNN’s Jake Tapper on the State of the Union, attacking the bill’s provisions on corporate taxes, health care subsidies and climate change funds . “And what does Joe get for it? It takes the promise that someday in the future, they will pass some kind of legislation on energy infrastructure,” he said. “Well, this is a disaster. This will worsen our recession. It will worsen inflation. It’s not going to do any good. I’m really surprised Joe agreed to this.” Toomey’s criticism echoes that of several of his Republican colleagues after Manchin revealed his surprise support last week for the Lower Inflation Act, a $700 billion bill that partially funds some of President Joe Biden’s top domestic priorities for the climate and the corporate tax rate. Some inside the GOP, who worked with Democrats on a semiconductor bill without knowing it was coming, likened it to treason. “How can we negotiate in good faith, compromise where necessary and get things done together after the majority leader and the senator from West Virginia pull a stunt like this?” Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) fumed on the Senate floor Thursday. “To look you in the eye and tell you one thing and do another is absolutely unforgivable.” Toomey also defended his party’s response to the bill, saying its climate provisions don’t do much to fight climate change, despite some more moderate Democrats — such as D-Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) — who with the rural-public supporting the bill. “What will a few more rich people who buy Teslas do? He’s not going to do anything,” Toomey said. “What we need is a strong economy and the ability to find the innovation and technology that will allow us on a massive commercial scale to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But these gestures—they might feel good, but they’re not an achievement.” Elsewhere in the interview, Toomey blasted Democrats — and comedian Jon Stewart — for their strong push for a veterans relief bill that Republicans blocked after initially supporting it. “This is the oldest trick in Washington,” Toomey claimed. “People take a compassionate group of Americans — and they may be children with a disease, they may be victims of crime, they may be veterans who have been exposed to toxic chemicals — they make a bill to address their problems, and then they hide something. completely out of touch who know it could never go away on its own and will dare Republicans to do anything about it because they know they will unleash their allies in the media and maybe a pseudo-celebrity will make false accusations to try to it makes us swallow things that shouldn’t be there.” The item Toomey was referring to was how the funds would be distributed, particularly as the funds would be put into a “mandatory spending” provision. That provision remained intact when the bill initially passed the Senate 84-14.