counterproposal for republicans on infrastructure. cnn s jessica dean is on capitol hill. but phil mattingly is in cleveland where president biden will be speaking this hour. what is the white house saying to this proposal? reporter: well, i think there s some encouragement. if you go back and forth over the course of the last several weeks you recognize the two sides have been very far apart. they still are. the white house s latest proposal $1.7 trillion. the republican proposal $928 billion. far apart on the top line and a lot of details and most importantly how to pay for the proposal. but white house officials i ve spoken to do feel like this is progress. republicans have continued to move towards the white house on the top line, opened the door to more investment in particular critical areas the white house used and therefore a memorial day deadline the president had set is going to be extended a little bit. they are going to continue talking throughout the course of the next w
and they ve got to figure out where to meet in the middle, both with the numbers, the top line numbers, but also creditly how to pay for this. let s take look at side by side comparisons, getting into details so people at home can see the $1.7 trillion proposal from president biden versus the $ $928 billion counterproposal that was released this morning from senate republicans, and you see kind of where they are on various issues, if you take a look at that list there you ll notice they re all talking about physical infrastructure, so-called hard infrastructure. that we ve had a lot of talk here on the hill about what is infrastructure, president biden in the white house had included home care and other items within their proposal, senate republicans are very much focused on this hard infrastructure, things like bridges, roads, things that you think about, airports, things like that, which they consider very much to be infrastructure, and, again, it s about finding that definition. and
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