A group of Republican and Democratic senators in the Senate revolve around a compromise proposal for infrastructure spending that would cost about $ 800 billion – an amount that is much less than what most Democrats want and what President Biden
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At the end of March, Biden unveiled a $ 2.25 trillion proposal called the “American Jobs Plan” that focuses on updating roads, bridges and public transportation, along with funding to fight climate change and other provisions to promote American families.
The president proposed raising the corporate tax rate to fund the bill, a measure by which both Republicans and moderate Democrats ran.
And while moderate Republicans and Democrats have agreed to come together to write a slimmer proposal, some GOP members have indicated that $ 800 billion could still be too much, while Democrats are more likely to strive for a higher price. .
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito
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“I said between $ 600 billion and $ 800 billion, it’s very ballpark-y,” Capito, the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, said Wednesday, citing spending on broadband expansion. and port infrastructure.
Other GOP moderates believe the Capito figure is a good starting point.
“I’ll get a presentation from Senator Capito next week … but I definitely think $ 800 billion would be a great package,” Sen. Susan Collins
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The Republican in West Virginia received a boost on Thursday when sen. Chris Coons
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“I spoke to Senator Capito yesterday. The way forward that I see and that I work for is one where we pass a two-party infrastructure bill that focuses on areas where the parties really agree, ‘he said in a CNN interview. “It could end up being a $ 800 to $ 1 trillion bilateral bill.”
Coons said in an interview with reporters later Thursday that it would be smart to first pass a scaled-down dual-infrastructure bill and then incorporate the remaining priorities on Biden’s infrastructure agenda into a second bill that the Senate can budget under. pass, a process that would require only Democratic votes.
‘We are trying to get $ 2 billion in infrastructure and labor investment. Why not do $ 800 billion of it in a dual way and do the other $ 1.2 billion? [Democrats] only through reconciliation? He said.
But the move of a reduced infrastructure package by the Senate, even as an installment on Biden’s $ 2.25 billion Build Back Better agenda, could be a tough sell-out in the Democratic caucus.
Perhaps the most influential centrist in Congress, Sen. Joe Manchin
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Manchin indicated on Thursday that it was not prepared to reach a $ 800 billion target for infrastructure spending.
“We’re going to do what’s necessary. “If it costs $ 4 trillion, I will do $ 4 trillion, but we have to pay for it,” he said.
“What we need to do is identify infrastructure. Come to an agreement, but we all identify. And the need for infrastructure, make sure we can do it [with] timeliness and make sure we pay for it. ‘
“There is no number at all on which to put it,” he added.
Other Democrats say they “want to go big” and express concern about discussing reducing Biden’s infrastructure proposal. Some of them are worried that the political momentum to pass a second package may disappear later in the year.
“I think we need to get big on this,” Sen. Bob Casey
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“This is a very important moment to grow up and I’m concerned that talks focusing on downsizing are negotiating against the goal we all have, ‘he said.
A group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate on Thursday called on Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a moderate Republican, to explore options for a dual infrastructure proposal that would cover a fraction of the cost of Biden ‘s plan would be.
‘It’s always encouraging when you talk to dual members of the Senate and House. Hogan’s government was on [the call.] “I think this is how you are going to work on a proposal that will get not only 50 Democrats and one Republican, but a very good two-party package,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski
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Yet there is even division among moderate Republicans over how much to spend.
Sen. Mitt Romney
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“It depends on what’s in it, what we define as infrastructure,” he said. “The number looks a bit high, but there may be some elements in it that I do not know.”
There are also differences of opinion between GOP legislators on how to pay for it.
Capito said Thursday that raising the corporate tax rate to pay infrastructure is a ‘non-starter’.
“I think it’s a non-negotiable red line,” she said Thursday. “For me personally, it’s a non-starter.”
Murkowski expressed a bit more flexibility to increase his revenue, but criticized Biden’s government for relying entirely on higher corporate and business taxes to pay for its infrastructure proposal.
“You have a very, very large package that the administration has laid down and say that this is how we are going to pay for it,” she said, referring to a proposal to increase the corporate tax rate to 28 percent.
She suggested that a mix of higher user fees, including an increase in the gas tax, should be considered.
‘Why do not we look at the gas tax? Why not even have a discussion about the actual miles we traveled on the road? she said. ‘There was no imagination, I do not think, it’s about:’ How are you going to deal with ‘pay-fors’? ‘