{"id":387105,"date":"2021-04-04T13:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T17:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=387105"},"modified":"2021-04-04T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T17:58:53","slug":"sen-blunt-infrastructure-plan-would-see-bipartisan-support-with-more-narrow-focus-on-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-blunt-infrastructure-plan-would-see-bipartisan-support-with-more-narrow-focus-on-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Blunt: Infrastructure plan would see bipartisan support with more narrow focus on infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-blunt-infrastructure-plan-would-see-bipartisan-support-with-more-narrow-focus-on-infrastructure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=387105&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2393619\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2393619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 APRIL 30: Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) spoke to the media following their weekly policy luncheon on April 30, 2019 in Washington, D.C.&nbsp; (Photo by Pete Marovich\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:52 AM PT \u2013 Sunday, April 4, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said he\u2019s interested in investing in infrastructure, but the Democrats\u2019 plan needs more focus.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Sunday, the Missouri lawmaker said he thinks if Joe Biden\u2019s plan would invest in only infrastructure, there would be bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p>Blunt explained he reached out to the White House and asked them to keep the plan narrowly focused on infrastructure, and leave out the other 70 percent that doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If the White House kept a targeted focus on infrastructure, there would be opportunity for a bipartisan package that meets our country&#8217;s critical infrastructure needs. But that hasn&#8217;t been their approach.<\/p>\n<p>More from my conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GStephanopoulos<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisWeekABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ThisWeekABC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KqiTKuX2Hz\">pic.twitter.com\/KqiTKuX2Hz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Roy Blunt (@RoyBlunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoyBlunt\/status\/1378732716557008897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said he hopes Democrats don\u2019t want to force a partisan bill that has the opportunity to do something good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s more in the package, George, for charging stations for electric vehicles, $174 billion, than there is for roads, bridges and airports, and ports,\u201d Blunt said.<\/p>\n<p>The senator warned wrapping a bill in a popular term that only addresses a small part of that term is the difference between a bipartisan win and a very partisan bill.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/gop-lawmakers-target-mlb-antitrust-immunity-following-decision-to-remove-all-star-game-from-ga\/\">GOP Lawmakers Target MLB Antitrust Immunity Following Decision To Remove All-Star Game From Ga.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 APRIL 30: Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) spoke to the media following their weekly policy luncheon on April 30, 2019 in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 (Photo by Pete Marovich\/Getty Images) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275930,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}