U.S. Senate Republicans unveiled a new $928 billion offer to revitalize America's Infrastructure Thursday including roads, bridges and broadband systems
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.
WASHINGTON -U.S. Senate Republicans unveiled a new infrastructure offer on Thursday that would spend $928 billion over eight years to revitalize America s roads, bridges and broadband systems but.
Republicans boost infrastructure counteroffer to $928 billion
By David Morgan
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republicans unveiled a new infrastructure offer on Thursday that would spend $928 billion over eight years to revitalize America s roads, bridges and broadband systems but still falls well short of President Joe Biden s last proposal.
The plan, from a group of six Republicans led by Senator Shelley Moore Capito, represents their counter-offer to a week-old $1.7 trillion https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-says-it-has-pared-down-infrastructure-proposal-17-trillion-2021-05-21 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.