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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 03, 2021, 04:03:22 pm
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McConnell: No Senate Republicans will back Biden on $4T
By Jordain Carney - 05/03/21 11:07 AM EDT
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that he expected no Republicans would support President Biden's sweeping infrastructure package, indicating GOP lawmakers are open to a roughly $600 billion bill.
"I think it's worth talking about but I don't think there will be any Republican support — none, zero — for the $4.1 trillion grab bag which has infrastructure in it but a whole lot of other stuff," McConnell said in a press conference in Kentucky.
Biden has proposed a sweeping roughly $4 trillion infrastructure package broken up into two pieces: A $2.3 trillion jobs package and a $1.8 trillion families package. While the package includes money for roads, bridges and broadband, it also expands into manufacturing, in-home care, housing, clean energy, public schools and manufacturing.
Democrats are likely to have to go it alone under reconciliation — which allows them to bypass the 60-vote filibuster — to pass most, if not all, of Biden's package.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/551465-mcconnell-no-senate-republicans-will-back-biden-on-4t