Four Congressional Republicans to Meet Joe Biden on $2.5 Trillion Spending Plan
Charlie Spiering 12 Apr 2021
Four Republican members of Congress plan to meet President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Monday to discuss his $2.5 trillion proposed spending plan.
The White House announced Sunday Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Deb Fischer (R-NB) would meet with the president and Reps. Don Young (R-AK) and Garret Graves (R-LA).
Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) will represent Democrats at the meeting as well as Reps. Don Payne (D-NJ), and David Price (D-NC).
Biden has not signaled any major changes to his massive spending proposal, as Republicans continue questioning the lack of spending on actual infrastructure projects.
The Senate Republican Conference released a memo Monday condemning Biden’s bill as a “partisan, job-crushing slush fund†noting just five percent of the proposed spending bill would be used for roads and bridges.
Even including a broad definition of infrastructure, including improvements of water systems, power grids, highways, roads, bridges, airports, broadband internet, and ports only make up roughly 25 percent of the bill’s spending.
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