Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Republicans were willing to negotiate with President Joe Biden on his infrastructure package.
Wicker said, “Well, listen, we’re willing to negotiate a much smaller package.”
He continued, “You’ve got a proposal here of the $2.3 trillion, 70% of which any stretch of the imagination can’t be called infrastructure. That’s on top of what a few weeks ago was not COVID-related, the skinny federal budget that the president rolled out just this past week. Where does the spending end? This is a massive social welfare spending program combined with a massive tax increase on small business job creators.”
He added, “I’m meeting with the president tomorrow … We are willing to negotiate with him on an infrastructure package but this trillion dollar number is way too high for me.”
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