{"id":539970,"date":"2021-05-25T13:48:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=539970"},"modified":"2021-05-25T14:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:05:16","slug":"gop-to-offer-biden-nearly-1-trillion-for-infrastructure-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-to-offer-biden-nearly-1-trillion-for-infrastructure-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP to Offer Biden Nearly $1 Trillion for Infrastructure Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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-to-offer-biden-nearly-1-trillion-for-infrastructure-plan%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=539970&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\/05\/GetFile-265.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A group of Senate Republicans plans to present their latest offer to the White House on a major new infrastructure package on Thursday, with one member saying it will weigh in at almost $1 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is going to be a very good offer,\u201d Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi told reporters Tuesday. The latest counter will be \u201cclose\u201d to $1 trillion, spread over eight years, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers have warned that time is running short to determine whether a bipartisan deal on infrastructure is possible, with progressives already calling for a go-it-alone approach using fast-track budget procedures. A new offer around $1 trillion would still leave the two sides many hundreds of billions of dollars apart.<\/p>\n<p>If President Joe Biden decides on a response, rather than administration staff, Wicker predicted he would take the deal. His comments underscored GOP sentiment that the White House\u2019s $1.7 trillion counter-offer to Republicans on Friday failed to reflect Biden\u2019s own, previous indications of his position. Biden had hosted the GOP group May 13.<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the lead Republican negotiator, said the group may request a meeting with Biden again since he seemed more open to a deal, and had indicated he could accept a $1 trillion bill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wide Gap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were pretty universal on this, I mean there was no dispute with what he said to us in the room that day \u2014 that\u2019s why I think, when we left there, we were pretty optimistic that this is a doable\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Wicker said the new GOP offer will be able to resolve the talks before Memorial Day \u2014 May 31 \u2014 in line with Biden\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Biden reduced his proposal by more than $500 billion from an initial $2.25 trillion by lowering spending on roads, bridges and broadband and saying he is willing to make investments in the manufacturing sector in separate bills \u2014 like the China-focused legislation on the Senate floor this week.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides have been defining the size of the package differently, with Republicans including money already expected to be in the spending pipeline. The GOP senators characterized their initial offer as $568 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Senate Republicans plans to present their latest offer to the White House on a major new infrastructure package on Thursday, with one member saying it will weigh &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312968,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-265.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"GOP to Offer Biden Nearly $1 Trillion for Infrastructure Plan","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-265.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"GOP to Offer Biden Nearly $1 Trillion for Infrastructure Plan","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539970","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=539970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}