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The Commerce secretary said Republicans’ $600 billion proposal was not enough to meet the country’s needs.
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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was unenthusiastic on Wednesday about the fledgling GOP alternative infrastructure proposal, saying it wouldn’t go far enough to meet the country’s needs.
The Biden administration has proposed a multiyear, $2.2 trillion spending package that would touch on huge swaths of the American economy, including areas not traditionally considered to be infrastructure.
Republicans and some moderate Democrats have expressed reservations about the price tag and how the White House intends to pay for it, and a handful of hopeful dealmakers in the Senate are developing a counteroffer that would land between $600 and $800 billion.
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12/16/2020 06:17 PM EST
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JOE BIDEN’s penchant for recycling key figures from the last Democratic administration has prompted predictions that the Biden government will be Obama 3.0.