{"id":566142,"date":"2021-06-16T17:36:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566142"},"modified":"2021-06-16T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:36:47","slug":"schumer-meets-with-democrats-about-passing-key-infrastructure-priorities-on-a-party-line-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-meets-with-democrats-about-passing-key-infrastructure-priorities-on-a-party-line-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer Meets With Democrats About Passing Key Infrastructure Priorities On A Party-Line Vote"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fschumer-meets-with-democrats-about-passing-key-infrastructure-priorities-on-a-party-line-vote%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=566142&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--><p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer began the process of passing key parts of President Joe Biden\u2019s infrastructure bill with a simple majority, even as bipartisan talks continue and a group of select senators announced their agreement on a basic legislative framework.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer met with the 11 Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee Wednesday, where they discussed in part beginning a process known as reconciliation that skirts the Senate filibuster and could create a pathway to pass parts of the infrastructure plan to which Republicans are uniformly opposed.<\/p>\n<p>Ten senators \u2014 five from each party \u2014 have simultaneously continued talks after <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/10\/bipartisan-senate-group-agreement-new-infrastructure-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">compromising<\/a> on a proposal totaling approximately $1.2 trillion over eight years. Half of that is expected to be new spending, with the overwhelming majority of it going towards roads, waterways and other physical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>A supplemental bipartisan group of 20 senators split equally by party also agreed on an infrastructure framework Tuesday amid Schumer\u2019s meeting, though they provided few details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cWe support this bipartisan framework that provides an historic investment in our nation\u2019s core <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">infrastructure<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> needs without raising taxes,\u201d they said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jackturmanIII\/status\/1405264142999724038\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joint <\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jackturmanIII\/status\/1405264142999724038\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>. \u201cWe look forward to working with our Republican and Democratic colleagues to develop legislation based on this framework to address America\u2019s critical infrastructure challenges.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Liberal Democrats, however, have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/11\/democrats-oppose-bipartisanship-infrastructure-heinrich-tester-ocasio-cortez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejected<\/a> a narrower plan as insufficient, with some threatening to oppose any bill that omits climate change mitigation measures and tax increases on the rich and corporations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are members with very justified views, whatever you can do bipartisan, you should try,\u201d Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rwyhn6v74ko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told reporters<\/a> Tuesday. \u201cBut alongside that is the view that that won\u2019t be enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are large numbers of people in our caucus \u2013 and I sympathize with this \u2013 who will not vote for a bipartisan bill unless they\u2019re quite certain what\u2019s going to be in reconciliation,\u201d he added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/15\/white-house-bipartisan-senate-group-timeline-infrastructure-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: White House Sets Deadline For Senators Discussing Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7215794\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7215794\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7215794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323745471-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323745471-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323745471-164x120.jpg 164w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323745471-620x454-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323745471-768x562-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323745471-1536x1124-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323745471-2048x1499-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323745471-70x52.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7215794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that he will proceed with reconciliation. (Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even with Schumer\u2019s move, it remains unclear whether the bipartisan package or reconciliation package have enough respective support to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Though a future reconciliation package would need just a simple majority to advance moderate Democratic senators like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/08\/manchin-block-infrastructure-bill-republicans-arent-included\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Manchin<\/a>\u00a0of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have expressed skepticism to rushing through a partisan package and have instead urged bipartisanship. It also remains unclear whether additional Republicans or liberal Democrats would sign onto the bipartisan framework reached Wednesday infrastructure package, since most are opposed to new spending and are adamant about certain provisions that could be excluded.<\/p>\n<p>Both Manchin and Sinema\u2019s offices did not immediately respond to an inquiry over whether they supported Schumer\u2019s move, and whether they would possibly support a reconciliation package.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer began the process of passing key parts of President Joe Biden\u2019s infrastructure bill with a simple majority, even as bipartisan talks continue and a group &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280509,"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\/06\/GettyImages-1323745471-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Schumer Meets With Democrats About Passing Key Infrastructure Priorities On A Party-Line Vote","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1323745471-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Schumer Meets With Democrats About Passing Key Infrastructure Priorities On A Party-Line Vote","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566142","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=566142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}