{"id":572376,"date":"2021-06-23T22:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T02:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572376"},"modified":"2021-06-23T22:06:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T02:06:23","slug":"biden-invites-bipartisan-senators-to-white-house-after-potential-infrastructure-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-invites-bipartisan-senators-to-white-house-after-potential-infrastructure-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Invites Bipartisan Senators To White House After Potential Infrastructure Breakthrough"},"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%2Fbiden-invites-bipartisan-senators-to-white-house-after-potential-infrastructure-breakthrough%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=572376&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-1322582771-scaled-e1623368136143.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden invited a bipartisan group of senators to meet with them at the White House on Thursday after a potential breakthrough agreement on a \u201cframework\u201d for an infrastructure deal.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announced they had reached the beginnings of an agreement Wednesday evening. The meeting, which included five Republican senators, five Democratic senators and several top White house officials, will continue with Biden at the White House on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m optimistic that we\u2019ve had a breakthrough,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/23\/infrastructure-deal-biden-congress-495796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Collins told reporters<\/a> Wednesday evening. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/21\/joe-biden-infrastructure-roads-bridges-highway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Wait A Second, Biden\u2019s Infrastructure Plan Calls For Tearing Down Highways?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\" story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-0\">\u201cWe came to an agreement on the plan that we have, and it\u2019s just a matter of trying to wrap it up tomorrow,\u201d Manchin said.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has not released a specific time for the meeting, though Biden is scheduled to visit North Carolina later in the day. The potential deal would reportedly cost a total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/white-house-bipartisan-group-deal-infrastructure-90d3c7d9-d385-43df-931e-0a4310a6f25b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">roughly $1.2 trillion<\/a>, down from Biden\u2019s original $2.3 trillion package.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"10.192468619247\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden started these negotiations with a $2 trillion infrastructure proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, White House aides have reportedly agreed to a framework with $579 billion in new spending.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lQdERbkh1n\">https:\/\/t.co\/lQdERbkh1n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Stein (@samstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samstein\/status\/1407855481713049601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden and Republicans have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/04\/biden-rejects-capito-republicans-infrastructure-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly gone back and forth<\/a> on potential infrastructure deals, with talks stalling out a number of times.<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki released a statement saying the Wednesday meetings were far more productive than past talks, however. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/biden-infrastructure-republican-spending-counter-offer-1-trillion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Took Out Bridge Money, Left In Liberal Wish List, Then Called It A \u2018Counter Offer\u2019 To Republicans)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite House senior staff had two productive meetings today with the bipartisan group of Senators who have been negotiating about infrastructure. The group made progress towards an outline of a potential agreement, and the President has invited the group to come to the White House tomorrow to discuss this in person,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden invited a bipartisan group of senators to meet with them at the White House on Thursday after a potential breakthrough agreement on a \u201cframework\u201d for an infrastructure &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281178,"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-1322582771-scaled-e1623368136143.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Invites Bipartisan Senators To White House After Potential Infrastructure Breakthrough","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572376","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-1322582771-scaled-e1623368136143.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Invites Bipartisan Senators To White House After Potential Infrastructure Breakthrough","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572376","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=572376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}