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Republicans up infrastructure offer to $928B, keeping talks alive


WASHINGTON (Reuters) U.S. Senate Republicans unveiled a new $928 billion offer to revitalize America s roads, bridges and broadband systems on Thursday, which fell well short of President Joe Biden s latest infrastructure proposal but proved substantial enough to keep negotiations alive.
The eight-year plan, from a group of six Republicans led by Senator Shelley Moore Capito, represents their counter-offer to a week-old $1.7 trillion White House proposal that removed more than $500 billion from Biden s original $2.25 trillion plan in a bid to reach a bipartisan agreement.
Biden, who had imposed an unofficial end-of-May deadline on infrastructure talks, spoke to Capito by telephone and later said he invited her to contact him again next week, adding: I told her we have to finish this very soon. ....

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