On Sunday, Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), George Stephanopoulos, told ABC News that he thought President Biden’s infrastructure plan would be an imposition on the White House if it were scaled down.
“I reached out to the White House a few times and said, ‘You have an easy two-party victory here if you focus this package only on infrastructure,'” he said. “And then the other 70 or so percent of the package that does not have much to do with infrastructure, if you want to force it in a biased way, you can still do it. Why would you give up the opportunity here to focus on roads, bridges … broadband, all of which would not be 40 percent of this package. ‘
But while Republicans, who are already prepared to reject the bill in its current form, want a streamlined version, progressive Democrats, while supporting the framework in general, do not think Biden has gone far enough. Rep. Ritchie Torres (DN.Y.), for example, said On Sunday, he believes another $ 30 billion would be needed to “fully address” America’s affordable housing crisis.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) added that ‘we probably want to spend more money on addressing climate change, and he specifically mentioned healthcare and made the university more affordable than two other areas where’ a lot of work needs to be done ‘.
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