GOP Senators Say Biden’s Infrastructure Deal Back on Track
- Portman says ‘we can go forward’ with planned bipartisan bill
- Biden set stage by walking back veto threat on Saturday
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Three Republican senators said President Joe Biden’s assurance that he isn’t linking a bipartisan $579 billion infrastructure plan to a larger tax and spending bill will allow negotiations to move ahead.
Rob Portman, a lead infrastructure negotiator for Republicans, said he “was very glad to see the president clarify” remarks he made Friday, which Republicans took as a threat to veto the infrastructure bill by connecting it with the bigger legislation that the GOP opposes.