Posted on 06/09/2021 8:04:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Biden ended infrastructure negotiations with a group of GOP lawmakers, led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the White House said Tuesday.
The development came after Biden reportedly failed to get the Republicans on board with increasing their overall spending on the plan.
"He [Biden] informed Senator Capito today that the latest offer from her group did not, in his view, meet the essential needs of our country to restore our roads and bridges, prepare us for our clean energy future, and create jobs," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. "He offered his gratitude to her for her efforts and good faith conversations, but expressed his disappointment that, while he was willing to reduce his plan by more than $1 trillion, the Republican group had increased their proposed new investments by only $150 billion."
Capito said she was "disappointed" by the president's decision to end talks.
"Despite the progress we made in our negotiations, the president continued to respond with offers that included tax increases as his pay for, instead of several practical options that would have not been harmful to individuals, families, and small businesses," she said in a statement. "While I appreciate President Biden's willingness to devote so much time and effort to these negotiations, he ultimately chose not to accept the very robust and targeted infrastructure package, and instead, end our discussions."
There were numerous areas of disagreement. Biden had originally proposed raising the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent as part of the plan, but many Republicans remained adamant that they wouldn’t support a change in the corporate tax rate. Biden later showed an openness to only raising the rate to 25 percent, and last week began pushing Republicans to see if they would accept any tax changes whatsoever.
Many Republicans had agreed that there needed to be large investments in U.S. infrastructure, but they had alleged that Biden’s original definition of “infrastructure” was too broad. For example, many Republicans objected to Biden’s original proposal, which would include large levels of spending on things such as elder care and other services. (WaPo)
Republican Sen. John Barrasso said Tuesday Biden never moved toward "core infrastructure."
"He had lots of broad requests for things that the American people don't see as infrastructure, and he has never backed away from his desire to continue to want to raise taxes," he said.
Biden is now turning his focus to negotiations with a group of 20 Republican and Democratic senators.
They’re going to use Reconciliation to get this through.
We have to elect better Republicans.
Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio, John Hoeven, John Cornyn, Thom Tillis, Lankford, Inhofe, Scott, Scott, Romney, McConnell, Cassidy, Thune, Ernst, Boozman, Murkowsky, Wicker, Hyde-Smith, Shelby, Blunt, Sasse, Toomey, Rounds, Portman, Burr, Lee, Capito, Barrasso, and Collins are all Bush League Republicans willing to meet the Democrats halfway on destroying the country.
They just won’t go all the way all at once like Senile Joe wants to do.
Biden is going to squeeze Manchin, and he knows Manchin will be bought out.
Joe just needs to go out and shake the money tree.
He should just rename it the You didn’t build nothing Bill.
This where Manchin will give. The infrastructure boondoggle means make work jobs for Manchin’s union cronies and other supporters in WV.
Sincerely doubt Senator Capito had any substantial discussions with Biden himself. No doubt she “negotiated” with some aides who had absolutely no intention of achieving a deal. Biden probably couldn’t recognize her or remember her name.
If Xiden and the other DEMINCRATS get their way with this crap and hos ridiculous Leftist Wet Dream Budget, the National Debt will reach at least $44 TRILLION DOLLARS in ten years.
That number will be much higher if Interest Rates Increase or there are any “unexpected” crisis that occur, and we all know things like that never happen. Cough, cough...
I am sick and tired of Republicans using the language of “My esteemed colleague” and similar tones.
The Left, with compliant RINOs, are bent on destroying this country. Any attempt at reconciliation with them is at best, viewed as weakness by them which they feel should be exploited, and. at worse, is directly siding with them in their goals.
-PJ
it was a setup.
“we tried to work with the republicans, but they’re insane. they’ve forced us to use reconciliation”.
RE: I am sick and tired of Republicans using the language of “My esteemed colleague” and similar tones.
How about “The Honorable Senator from ____”
This has always been the statist tactic. Spend all of the tax money on sugar plumbs and lollypops. Then when people want something actually done the statists require more taxes. In the case of a government which prints money taxes and spending are equivalent.
When the Uncle Sugar pipeline ends. Look out.
Good. This bill should never pass.
Grrr. Given that I heard that one applied to Ted Kennedy and John McCain so often, that is a burr under MY saddle for sure...
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