The White House and Shelly Capito -- that other Republican senator from West Virginia -- have been talking for weeks, trying to get to Yes on Biden's infrastructure bill. Finally, though, the administration has decided that those talks have been going nowhere, and slowly at that.
The sticking points: The Republicans just don't want to spend big bucks on infrastructure. They also wanted to fund the bill from what's left of the COVID19 economic stimulus money, and they have steadfastly refused to raise taxes. Biden wants to raise taxes on people making more than $400,000 a year, and increase corporate taxes part way back to where they were just a few months ago.
Biden's team will instead work with a bipartisan group of senators: Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and other Senate moderates, such as Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
The senators are aiming to release a proposal by the end of the week.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/557417-white-house-to-end-infrastructure-talks-with-capito-shift-focus-to?fbclid=IwAR0i1cZQgJaLp9VTXJDMMdKDlwXMLmlXe2DJWxQ0QaLZboxW6ROsEzneSyo
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