Economics
GOP Balks on Spending Plan as Biden Aide Rules Out Inaction
- Cost, content are GOP sticking points on infrastructure effort
- Republicans have panned trimmed-down White House proposal
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President Joe Biden “will not let inaction be the final answer” on his infrastructure spending plan, and will change course if it becomes clear a bipartisan outcome is impossible, said a top White House adviser.
Senate Republicans on Friday panned a trimmed-down $1.7 trillion infrastructure proposal from the White House, saying the revised offer suggested the two sides were even further apart than the GOP lawmakers had thought. Sunday brought no change in tone.