{"id":542531,"date":"2021-05-27T09:15:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=542531"},"modified":"2021-05-27T09:50:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T13:50:27","slug":"republicans-unveil-928-billion-infrastructure-counteroffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-unveil-928-billion-infrastructure-counteroffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Unveil $928 Billion Infrastructure Counteroffer"},"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\">12<\/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%2Frepublicans-unveil-928-billion-infrastructure-counteroffer%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=542531&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-413.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Senate Republicans unveiled a new infrastructure offer on Thursday that would spend $928 billion to revitalize America&#8217;s roads, bridges and broadband systems, still well below President Joe Biden&#8217;s last proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, from a group of six Republicans led by Senator Shelley Moore Capito, represents their counter-offer to a week-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/white-house-says-it-has-pared-down-infrastructure-proposal-17-trillion-2021-05-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.7 trillion <\/a>White House proposal that slashed more than $500 billion from Biden&#8217;s original $2.25 trillion plan in a bid to reach a bipartisan agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has imposed an unofficial end-of-May deadline on the negotiations, and some Senate Democrats have been pushing to go it alone if Republicans do not reach an agreement soon.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has expressed willingness to negotiate on some of the finer details but has said it wants a large package that expands the definition of infrastructure to include items such as free community college and paid family leave.<\/p>\n<p>To pay for it, the administration has said it is open to any ideas as long as they don&#8217;t include asking Americans earning less than $400,000 to pick up the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have said their offer matches parameters set by Biden at a White House meeting on May 13, when they said he mentioned a $1 trillion figure.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/autos-transportation\/republicans-vs-biden-whats-their-infrastructure-plans-2021-04-22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initially proposed a $568 billion<\/a>, five-year plan and increased the top line to around $800 billion over eight years when the two sides met on Capitol Hill on May 18, according to the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal still leaves the two sides hundreds of billions of dollars apart, with no agreement on the scope of a package or how to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans want the package limited to roads, bridges, airports, waterways and broadband access. The group rejected the White House&#8217;s $1.7 trillion offer, saying it still contained social spending provisions and tax hikes on U.S. corporations that they have opposed. Republicans instead proposed paying for the package with unspent COVID-19 relief money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans unveiled a new infrastructure offer on Thursday that would spend $928 billion to revitalize America&#8217;s roads, bridges and broadband systems, still well below President Joe Biden&#8217;s last proposal. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313233,"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-413.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Republicans Unveil $928 Billion Infrastructure Counteroffer","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542531","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-413.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Republicans Unveil $928 Billion Infrastructure Counteroffer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542531","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=542531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}