A Republican source told “Fox News” (Foxnews) that Republicans plan to introduce their own infrastructure bill with a spending scale of about $650 billion. Meanwhile, the White House and congressional Democrats continue to push President Biden’s proposed spending plan of more than $2 trillion.
In the weeks prior, Republicans complained that Biden’s American Jobs Plan actually spent far less on infrastructure than the total spending it proposed, FoxNews reported Wednesday (April 14). The White House has since said it is willing to work on this issue. The White House has since said it is willing to negotiate on the issue.
Fox News has learned that funding for broadband Internet would be included in the Republican plan. The Republican bill is expected to be introduced during the resumed session in May.
Republicans have expressed skepticism about the White House’s sincerity in negotiating an infrastructure bill, especially after Biden had previously rejected several moderate Republican senators from negotiating on an epidemic relief bill.
But the infrastructure bill proposed by Republicans this time could serve as a start to negotiations on the issue. A Republican source told Fox News that the $650 billion infrastructure package proposed by the Republicans is much larger than the previous plan of about $300 billion.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican, said earlier Wednesday on NBC Business, “What I want to do is go back to what I think is the conventional definition of job-creating infrastructure, which includes roads, bridges, ports, airports, but also broadband, water infrastructure. airports, but also broadband, water infrastructure.” “I would say it could be $600 billion or $800 billion, and we haven’t added all of that together.”
On Tuesday (April 13), Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said of a possible Republican infrastructure proposal, “The number – $800 billion – seems a little high. — seems a little high, but there may be some elements of it that I’m not familiar with. Broadband would be part of that, along with water, sewer, roads, airports and so on.”
Meanwhile, congressional Democrats have made it clear that some other elements of Biden’s American Jobs Plan are important to them.
On Friday (April 9), the Congressional Progressive Caucus released a list of their priorities in Biden’s plan, including the “caring economy,” housing and climate change, among others. Republicans specifically attacked Biden’s plan, accusing it of actually putting money into family care, climate change and housing, among other things.
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