A group of 10 Republican senators gathered President Biden
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The ten lawmakers issued a joint statement pushing Biden’s criticism earlier in the day that the mostly moderate Republican group “did not move an inch” of its proposal to spend $ 618 billion on the package. ‘aid to pandemic approved by Congress last month.
Democrats eventually approved the $ 1.9 trillion U.S. bailout plan, which was largely based on Biden’s original proposal, without a Republican vote in the Senate or House.
Leader of the Senate majority Charles Schumer
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“The administration flatly rejected our effort as totally inappropriate in order to justify its strategy,” the senators said in their statement.
“Less than 24 hours after our meeting in the Oval Office, the Democratic Senate leader began the process to trigger reconciliation that prevented Republican participation and allowed the package to pass without a single Republican vote,” they said. to say.
The group of Republican senators, led by Susan Collins
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Shelley Wellons Moore CapitoAmerica’s infrastructure: get what you pay for Republicans, I don’t think Biden wants to work with them the House Freedom Caucus chair opposes the infrastructure proposal MORE (W.Va.) issued the statement to reject Biden’s assertion that they were unwilling to commit.
“A Republican group came to see me, and they started for $ 600 billion, and that’s it,” Biden told reporters Wednesday when asked if he would keep his promise to bring bipartisanship to Washington. if Republicans voted again in unison against their $ 2.25 trillion Infrastructure Plan.
The president said he was prepared to draw up a relief package for the bipartisan pandemic, but Republican lawmakers refused to give any reason.
“I would have been prepared to make a commitment, but they did not. They did not move an inch. Not an inch, ”he said.
GOP senators noted Wednesday that their $ 618 billion proposal “included the basics of COiden’s relief from the Biden administration’s plan,” such as providing $ 160 billion to support vaccines and the tests.
They also noted that they offered to increase the package size to $ 650 billion to increase the size of the proposed stimulus controls.
The clash between Biden senators and the GOP bodes ill for the possibility that their Build Back Better infrastructure plan will garner strong bipartisan support.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
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