As a Republican delegation is scheduled to meet President Joe Biden at the White House this week to discuss his proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has suggested the GOP would be willing to raise its ceiling for the plan to $800 billion. “The proper price tag for what most of us think about when we think about infrastructure is about [$600 billion to $800 billion],” McConnell said in an interview on public television in Kentucky over the weekend. His remarks come after a White House official told reporters Friday that Biden will meet Thursday with Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.). Capito has led a group of Senate Republicans in unveiling a $568 billion infrastructure counterproposal to Biden’s plan, saying at an April 22 press conference that the GOP defines the …
McConnell Signals GOP Support for Raising Infrastructure Bill Ceiling to $800 Billion
May 10, 2021
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