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25 May 2021
Republicans nearly doubled their counteroffer to $1 trillion in negotiations with President Joe Biden over his infrastructure package.
“We’re not going to disturb the 2017 tax bill, which was the best economy of my lifetime,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said. “We’re going to make it eight years, as the President said he would accept. We’re going to hit a figure, very close to what the President said he would accept.”
“It will end up being the most substantial infrastructure bill ever enacted by the federal government. And if the president gets to make the decision, he will accept this,” Wicker told Axios Tuesday about the second counter.
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