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Biden Says 'We Have an Agreement' After Meeting Democrats on Infrastructure
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1:35Now PlayingU.S. President Joe Biden continued the push for public support of his infrastructure proposal Wednesday by hosting a bipartisan group of governors and mayors at the White House.
With leaders from both parties present at the discussion table, Biden sought to emphasize the cross-party aspects of the proposal, joking that when he got to Washington, "180 years ago, it was a bipartisan issue."
Biden said he wanted to speak with governors and mayors because they know, "more than anyone else knows, what it means to be accountable to people and you have to solve problems every single day in their communities."
"There are no Democratic roads or Republican bridges," Biden said, adding, "but there are families in need of shorter commute times, safer commutes, kids need to be able to drink clean drinking water, that doesn't have lead in it. And communities need to have reliable transit systems and we have a chance to solve these problems."
Late Tuesday, top Democrats announced an agreement among themselves on plans to spend a mammoth $3.5 trillion over the coming decade on a wide range of domestic programs including climate change, health care and family service programs.
Biden has proposed financing the plan with tax boosts on the rich and big corporations.
Democrats will need support from all their lawmakers in the 50-50 Senate and could lose no more than three in the House to pass the massive bill.
Separately, a bipartisan group of senators is working to flesh out a related measure that would cost around $1 trillion - including around $579 billion in new spending — on roads, water systems and other more traditional infrastructure projects, another Biden priority.
Biden and that group had agreed to an outline of that measure last month, and bargainers are hoping to craft a compromise bill in coming days.
Together, the infrastructure and social program packages fall a bit short of the roughly $4.5 trillion Biden had proposed to help communities and families in every corner of the country.
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