Live Updates: Republicans Push for Biden to Shrink Infrastructure Plans
President Biden will meet this week with Republican senators on his infrastructure ambitions, which the senators want him to scale back and pay for without tax increases. Administration officials see some opportunities for compromise.
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Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia is among the Republicans who will meet with President Biden this week.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
President Biden will engage Senate Republicans in further discussions this week as both sides seek a bipartisan compromise on infrastructure, but he appears unlikely to scale back his $4 trillion economic ambitions in the talks.