{"id":566266,"date":"2021-06-16T19:21:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566266"},"modified":"2021-06-16T19:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:21:26","slug":"10-gop-senators-agree-to-biden-infrastructure-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-gop-senators-agree-to-biden-infrastructure-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"10 GOP Senators Agree To Biden Infrastructure Framework"},"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\">16<\/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%2F10-gop-senators-agree-to-biden-infrastructure-framework%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=566266&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\/06\/GettyImages-1317838619-scaled-e1623883094816.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Twenty U.S. senators, including ten Republicans, agreed to support President Joe Biden\u2019s infrastructure plan Wednesday amid widespread GOP opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Ten GOP senators, along with one Independent and nine Democratic colleagues, expressed their support for Biden\u2019s\u00a0infrastructure plan, known as the \u201cAmerican Jobs Plan,\u201d in order to improve \u201cAmerica\u2019s critical infrastructure challenges\u201d in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe support this bipartisan framework that provides an historic investment in our nation\u2019s core infrastructure needs without raising taxes. We look forward to working with our Republican and Democrat colleagues to develop legislation based on this framework to address America\u2019s critical infrastructure challenges,\u201d the senators wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.0280898876404\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">????NEWS! 20 senators \u2013 INCLUDING 10 REPUBLICANS \u2013 agree on bipartisan infrastructure framework <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZXItk5sTjC\">pic.twitter.com\/ZXItk5sTjC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacquiHeinrich\/status\/1405265455778963456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The GOP senators supporting the plan include Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, and Richard Burr of North Carolina. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/20\/biden-infrastructure-bipartisan-compromise-democrats-republicans-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Seems To Yet Again Ignore Bipartisan Compromise To Join The Left On Infrastructure)<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The $2 trillion \u201cAmerican Jobs Plan\u201d intends to raise the corporate <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/31\/joe-biden-infrastructure-plan-trump-tax-corporate-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tax rate<\/a> to 28% in order to invest in transportation infrastructure, modernizing utilities such as water and electricity, improving the livelihoods of the elderly and disabled, and in private sector innovation and clean energy projects.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of Republican and moderate Democratic lawmakers have opposed the infrastructure plan, including and Democratic West Virginia <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/05\/joe-manchin-against-joe-biden-infrastructure-bill-corporate-tax-rate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sen. Joe Manchin<\/a> who criticized the package\u2019s tax hike, and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who compared the plan to a \u201cTrojan horse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not going to be apparently an infrastructure package. It\u2019s like a Trojan horse. So it\u2019s called infrastructure but inside the Trojan horse is going to be more borrowed money and massive tax increases,\u201d McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/31\/mitch-mcconnell-joe-biden-called-him-talk-infrastructure-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in March. Biden called McConnell in March to discuss the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, along with six other GOP colleagues, have been leading an effort to compromise with Biden on the plan. The GOP proposed to spend $926 billion on infrastructure while the administration has brought the plan\u2019s price to $1.7 trillion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/may\/30\/real-compromise-biden-infrastructure-plan-republican-capito\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>If the lack of GOP support for the plan continues, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough said that Democrats could pass the infrastructure package through a simple majority vote known as <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/05\/democrats-filibuster-infrastructure-bill-parliamentarian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reconciliation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty U.S. senators, including ten Republicans, agreed to support President Joe Biden\u2019s infrastructure plan Wednesday amid widespread GOP opposition.Ten GOP senators, along with one Independent and nine Democratic colleagues, expressed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280524,"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-1317838619-scaled-e1623883094816.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"10 GOP Senators Agree To Biden Infrastructure Framework","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566266","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-1317838619-scaled-e1623883094816.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"10 GOP Senators Agree To Biden Infrastructure Framework","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566266","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=566266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}