The group is expected to be looking at a proposal of around $900 billion, but they ve been careful not to publicly release a number, saying the level of spending isn t yet locked in. Biden s initial infrastructure proposal exceeded $2.2 trillion.
The red line on taxes comes after the bipartisan group met Tuesday night in a Senate basement office as they try to craft a bipartisan infrastructure deal.
ADVERTISEMENT We made a lot of good progress. . We went through line by line and we ve got pretty good agreement on most of those components, Romney told reporters after the late-night meeting.
Members of the group are also haggling over how to pay for their bill, which has been a perennial sticking point in infrastructure talks.
In an interview on Hill.TV’s “Rising,” Gray reacted to news that Biden had cut off talks with Republicans on an infrastructure deal, instead now engaging with a bipartisan group of senators to reach a compromise.
Gray said, however, that she doesn’t think opposition from Republicans or a few more moderate Democrats are to blame for the lack of progress on infrastructure and other spending negotiations.
“I think that this whole last three or four months or so has been a really important lesson for those that might have thought that it was enough to go blue no matter who, get a Democrat in office and presume that the ‘D’ next to their name meant they had some kind of foundational commitment to the ideals we thought we broadly shared,” Gray argued.
A sweeping infrastructure and climate change package. Lowering prescription drug prices. A long-awaited immigration overhaul.
With a nearly $2 trillion COVID-19 relief package now signed into law, Democrats on Capitol Hill have begun wrestling with this question: Which policy issues should they fast-track next?
The arcane budget reconciliation process would allow Democrats who control razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate to sidestep a GOP filibuster in the Senate and push through another massive legislation package with zero Republican votes, just as they did this month with President Biden
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At the moment, Democrats are all over the map about what should be in that next package. Moderate Rep. Elissa Slotkin