Gap With White House on Infrastructure Is Widening, GOP Says
- Biden team submitted a revised $1.7 trillion plan to GOP
- Most in GOP group favor giving talks another week, person says
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Senate Republicans panned President Joe Biden’s trimmed-down $1.7 trillion infrastructure proposal on Friday, saying the revised offer suggested the two sides were even further apart than the lawmakers had thought they were.
“There continue to be vast differences between the White House and Senate Republicans when it comes to the definition of infrastructure, the magnitude of proposed spending, and how to pay for it,” said Kelley Moore, a spokeswoman for West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito, the lawmaker leading the GOP effort.