U.S. Senate Republicans Aim for Infrastructure Counterproposal Soon
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U.S Senate Republicans could produce their own “conceptual” counterproposal to President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan. While left-leaning articles highlight that there’s still a chance Democrats and Republicans may reach agreement on some areas of physical infrastructure spending, right-leaning articles highlight that words like “infrastructure” are being defined very broadly by Democrats.
A left-leaning article by Bloomberg highlights that there’s still a chance Democrats and Republicans may reach agreement on some areas of physical infrastructure spending. GOP Senator Rob Portman told reporters that Republicans want to keep the package to traditional infrastructure.
Reuters published a centrist article reporting that the Republicans’ counter-proposal could be less than a third of the size of the White House’s. On Tuesday, Senator Shelley Moore Capito told reporters that the Republican plan would include projects and means to pay for them, as they oppose Biden’s plan because of its size and corporate tax hike.
A right-leaning article by Fox News highlights that words like “infrastructure” are being defined very broadly by Democrats. Republicans say most of what’s in the package isn’t actually infrastructure, even though Biden is selling its spending package as an infrastructure plan.