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Some lawmakers have criticized the plan for spending that goes beyond roads and bridges and includes such items as child care and because it is suspected that tax increases will be needed to pay for the funding. The report also does not say how much money would be given to Utah if the proposed plan passes Congress.
Sen. Mitt Romney’s spokesperson Arielle Mueller said the Republican opposes the tax increases, but is open to putting an infrastructure plan in place.
“He hopes that infrastructure reform will be negotiated in a bipartisan way to improve what’s broken in our country - roads, highways, bridges in disrepair - not as a means to institute a laundry list of government projects that have nothing to do with infrastructure,” Mueller said of Romney’s response to the plan.