{"id":574978,"date":"2021-06-27T16:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T20:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574978"},"modified":"2021-06-27T16:36:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T20:36:07","slug":"sen-portman-blindsided-by-biden-comments-linking-infrastructure-and-reconciliation-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-portman-blindsided-by-biden-comments-linking-infrastructure-and-reconciliation-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Portman: blindsided by Biden comments linking infrastructure and reconciliation bills"},"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%2Fsen-portman-blindsided-by-biden-comments-linking-infrastructure-and-reconciliation-bills%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=574978&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 id=\"attachment_2437748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2437748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Biden speaks with Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) left, and other bipartisan group of senators outside the White House in Washington after Biden invited members of the group of 21 Republican and Democratic senators to discuss an infrastructure plan. (AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 1:12 PM PT \u2013 Sunday, June 27, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said he was relieved to hear Joe Biden walked back recent comments regarding the bipartisan infrastructure bill. In an interview on Sunday, the Ohio lawmaker said he was \u201cblindsided\u201d by Biden\u2019s comments that the infrastructure bill was somehow linked to the Democrat-led reconciliation package.<\/p>\n<p>Portman noted that there had never been discussions over the last four months linking the bills and said he was pleased lawmakers could now move forward with the broadly popular bill. The Republican senator went on to insist a bipartisan infrastructure agreement would result in a more efficient and productive economy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Linking core infrastructure with the Democrats\u2019 trillion dollar spending bill was never discussed during our negotiations. <\/p>\n<p>I am glad <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a>&nbsp;clarified his comments on Thursday and look forward to working to advance this bipartisan infrastructure agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Portman (@senrobportman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/senrobportman\/status\/1409217562395693069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that we need to do to be able to compete with China and our other global competitors and to frankly do something that presidents through the ages have talked about,\u201d he explained. \u201cI remember when Donald Trump talked about it, the need for a $2 trillion infrastructure bill.\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n<p>GOP lawmakers reported discussions regarding the bipartisan infrastructure deal have resumed since Biden clarified his comments. The proposal consists of an estimated $1 trillion, which would be spent on physical infrastructure such as transportation systems, water systems and broadband.<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of President Trump, Portman said the 45th president is definitely the leader of the Republican party. He added Trump has high popularity among the GOP base pointing to Saturday night\u2019s rally attendance.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/fla-rep-calls-bidens-latinx-comments-an-insult-to-latino-culture\/\">Fla. Rep. Calls Biden\u2019s \u2018Latinx\u2019 Comments An Insult To Latino Culture<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden speaks with Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) left, and other bipartisan group of senators outside the White House in Washington after Biden invited members of the group of 21 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2281469,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574978","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}