Infrastructure Talks Near Collapse

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Infrastructure Talks Near Collapse

May 24, 2021 at 8:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 4 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/05/24/infrastructure-talks-near-collapse/

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Politico: “Senate Republicans negotiating with the White House sounded dour notes on Monday evening and are mulling whether to even make a counteroffer to President Joe Biden’s proposal last week. Democrats are increasingly calling for Biden to consider going it alone rather than see the GOP water down his agenda.”

“An unofficial deadline for a bipartisan accord on infrastructure hits a week from now and negotiators are some $1.5 trillion apart, with severe differences in both size and scope, after more than a month of talks.”

Said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI): “We’re too far apart. Because I think Mitch’s ultimate purpose is not compromise but delay and mischief.”

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[Bev54]

1. Good, now they can stop the pretense

and just pass it by reconciliation.

[hauckeye]

2. Will Manchin go for that?

[Bev54]

7. I think Manchin is getting the message from the republicans

I think he will.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. He can point to his voters that repugs forced his hand

and he had no choice, they did not want to agree to anything.

[spanone]

3. dear democrats, you gave them everything they wanted in the commission negotiations...

and look what you got.....they don't have the word bipartisanship in their vocabulary

[Phoenix61]

4. The last sentence. Mitch doesn't want anything

to pass. He just wants to obstruct and create as much mischief and mayhem as possible along the way.

[maxsolomon]

5. Append it to the Covid Relief bill.

IIRC, the Parliamentarian already said that was allowed.

[roamer65]

6. HELL YEAH.

Attach it and ram it through.