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Senate Republicans to Unveil Counteroffer to Biden's Infrastructure Plan
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0:51Now PlayingRepublican senators say they are on track to deliver their counteroffer Tuesday to the Biden administration on the biggest infrastructure package in recent decades.
“It’s not all ready but it’s getting there,” Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who’s leading the GOP effort, said Monday evening.
Capito, along with a group of other Republican senators, will meet on Tuesday with administration officials including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo as the two sides continue negotiations that started last week with President Joe Biden hosting a meeting at the White House.
While the GOP initially proposed a $568 billion, five-year package that was well short of Biden’s $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan, there are increasing signs the party will back a bigger bill. Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell has said he could envision a total of as much as $800 billion.
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina went further Monday. “We’re not going to do $2 trillion, but I think we could find an $800 to $900 billion infrastructure package,” he said in a statement.
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