{"id":426349,"date":"2021-04-15T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=426349"},"modified":"2021-04-15T09:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:51:05","slug":"gop-senator-take-away-the-extra-infrastructure-areas-in-bidens-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-take-away-the-extra-infrastructure-areas-in-bidens-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senator: \u2018Take Away The Extra Infrastructure Areas\u2019 In Biden\u2019s Bill"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fgop-senator-take-away-the-extra-infrastructure-areas-in-bidens-bill%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=426349&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2002.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Appearing on CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box\u201d Wednesday, West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito stated that Congress should \u201ctake away the extra \u2018infrastructure\u2019 areas that the president has put into his bill.\u201d She added that the Biden administration should not raise taxes to pay for their infrastructure bill because of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Squawk Box host Joe Kernan asked, \u201cWhat would you like to do in terms of infrastructure and how much would you like to spend doing it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019d like to do is get back to what I consider the regular definition of infrastructure in terms of job creation,\u201d Capito answered. \u201cSo that\u2019s roads, bridges, ports, airports, including broadband into that, water infrastructure. And we\u2019ve already made, sort of, our first step there in our bipartisan way through our committee. We have a bill on water and wastewater structure; it\u2019s about $30 billion dollars over five years and it works on some of the things that are aspirational in President Biden\u2019s plan. So I think the best way for us to do this is hit the sweet spot of where we agree, and I think we can agree on a lot of the measures moving forward. How much, I would say, probably into the $600 or $800 billion \u2014 but we haven\u2019t put all that together yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think that if we\u2019re going to do this together, which we want to do and is our desire, we\u2019ve got to find those areas and take away the extra \u2018infrastructure\u2019 areas that the president has put into his bill, like home health aids and school building and all of these kinds of things,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Kernan noted that raising taxes to pay for the infrastructure bill would not be a good idea with inflation already a problem. He asked Capito how she would pay for her suggested bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s going to be much appetite for those of us on the Republican side who voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs bill in 2017 to raise taxes,\u201d Capito said. \u201cWhat we saw in 2020, pre-pandemic, obviously, was higher wages, more people working, people who had trouble finding jobs were finding jobs and moving up in the employment chain, so to speak, so we were having the desired results. We had trillions of dollars moving back into this country as a result of that, no corporate inversions. I don\u2019t know why we would go back to that and put our country in a position where we\u2019re not competitive as we are right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo how do we pay for that?\u201d she asked rhetorically. \u201cThis a huge question. \u2026 It\u2019s going to have to come from a lot of different sources, but this is important \u2026 we cannot raise taxes now when we\u2019re in such a precarious position moving out of this last year of pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the Democrats would force their infrastructure plan through by using reconciliation, thus allowing them to pass the bill by using the 50-50 tie in the Senate and the tie-breaking vote from Vice President Kamala Harris, Capito answered, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be being fully forthright here if I didn\u2019t say that was my concern, that it is going to be a sort of march of folks going to the White House and us doing bipartisan work in our committees and in the end, it becomes a partisan instrument. Where I think we could really score some wins here for the country, is if we take the portions that we know we agree on and we move those through our committees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Senator Capito Discusses the Path Towards Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation on CNBC&#039;s Squawk Box\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2iv0lo7M0VM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman expressed his misgivings about any attempt by the Democrats to negotiate with Republicans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9472481\/GOP-present-smaller-650-billion-infrastructure-proposal-counter-Bidens-plan.html\">saying<\/a>, \u201cThey are not doing any outreach that is significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Whip John Thune stated, \u201cI don\u2019t think there is going to be any appetite among Republicans for doing anything that undoes any of the 2017 law. The question is whether they are willing to do a truly infrastructure bill or whether they want to do the big government bill, and if they want to do the big government bill, it is hard to see how you would get a lot of Republicans to vote for what they are talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>he Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing on CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box\u201d Wednesday, West Virginia Republican Sen. 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