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GOP Infrastructure Plan Leaves $1 Trillion-Plus Gap With Biden s

McConnell Says GOP Could Still Go Higher on Infrastructure Bloomberg 16 mins ago © Bloomberg Senate Republicans Balk At Jan. 6 Panel Setting Up Showdown (Bloomberg) Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said his party could go beyond the revised infrastructure-spending offer it released Thursday morning, a plan that was over $1 trillion short of the latest presentation from President Joe Biden’s team. “We’re open to spending some more,” McConnell said on MSNBC Thursday. Asked whether the submission by a group of GOP senators earlier in the day was a final offer, he said, “No, we’re going to keep talking.” The Republican offer unveiled Thursday morning by Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, John Barrasso of Wyoming and Roy Blunt of Missouri totals $928 billion over eight years, but most of that was funding Congress was expected to enact anyway.

GOP Floats Infrastructure Offer Over $1 Trillion Less Than Biden

Biden to Meet GOP Next Week on Infrastructure as Clock Ticks Bloomberg 2 days ago © Bloomberg Senate Republicans Balk At Jan. 6 Panel Setting Up Showdown (Bloomberg) President Joe Biden plans to meet with Republicans next week after a group of GOP senators pitched a fresh offer on a major new infrastructure plan, but warned that the window for a deal will shut soon, with Republicans still over $1 trillion short of the White House’s latest proposal. “We’re going to have to close this down soon,” Biden said of talks with Republicans, speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One to travel to Cleveland for a speech on the economy. He said he briefly spoke Thursday with Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who’s been leading the Republican counter-proposals, and plans to meet with her “sometime next week.”

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