Biden Meeting with GOP’s Capito Yields No Infrastructure Deal
- Progressives want Biden to ditch talks and bypass Republicans
- But senator, president say they will talk again on Friday
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President Joe Biden met Wednesday with the Senate’s main Republican negotiator on infrastructure, and although the talks didn’t yield a breakthrough for a bipartisan compromise, they agreed to speak again on Friday.
The Oval Office session between the president and Senator Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican, which the White House called “a constructive and frank conversation,” lasted more than an hour.