White House Rejects GOP’s Second Infrastructure Proposal and Demands Tax Increases
The White House rejected Senate Republicans’ second infrastructure proposal, demanding tax increases and additional items.
The White House rejected Senate Republicans’ second infrastructure proposal, demanding tax increases and additional items.
Senate Republicans have offered a second infrastructure counter proposal of $928 billion over eight years, as the Biden administration’s stands at $1.7 trillion.
Thursday, during an appearance on MSNBC, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) argued the pandemic was an opportunity to redefine the meaning of infrastructure.
Cummings revealed the dumbfoundment he felt when he discovered the government’s pandemic plans didn’t actually exist in any meaningful sense.
Republicans Nearly Double Counter Offer to $1 Trillion in Negotiations over Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Package
Democrats now hope to pass a partisan infrastructure package using next year’s budget resolution, a move that would significantly delay the momentum of one of President Joe Biden’s signature proposals.
The establishment media sounded the alarm Monday about President Joe Biden’s radical policies stalling in Congress until 2022.
Another far-left group urged President Joe Biden Friday to not negotiate with Republicans on the infrastructure proposal due to fears of watering down the package.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Stephanie Ruhle Reports,” Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) stated that she wouldn’t agree to smaller legislation that focuses solely on hard infrastructure “Because what we’re doing here is not an infrastructure bill. It is an economic
Congressional Democrats are continuing resist bipartisan negotiations over the Biden administration’s infrastructure proposal.
Georgia and New Jersey’s vulnerable Democrats show sinking poll numbers when running against any generic Republican in the midterms when voters are asked about President Joe Biden’s partisan infrastructure and tax plans, according to a recent poll from the Coalition to Protect American Workers.
The Biden administration continues its push on “equity” with its “infrastructure” proposal that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said will dump money to “people who are not normally at the table or in the research lab.”
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg weighed in on the prospect of using user fees to fund infrastructure by stating that President Joe Biden isn’t going to be interested in “anything that would raise taxes
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” FNC host Howard Kurtz said that because of media obsession with anything that involves former President Donald Trump, the ouster of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from leadership in the GOP
CNBC host Joe Kernen indicated that he was not impressed with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s sales job on the Biden administration’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal on Thursday’s broadcast of “Squawk Box.”
Democrats sent a letter to President Biden Thursday to spur the administration to not negotiate with Republicans and instead use the tactic of reconciliation to pass Biden’s infrastructure package.
Morgan Wright, chief security officer for the SentinelOne cybersecurity corporation and former senior adviser to the U.S. State Department Antiterrorism Assistance Program, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to discuss the cyberattack that crippled the Colonial pipeline and caused fuel shortages across the eastern United States.
During a portion of an interview with MSNBC released on Wednesday, President Joe Biden stated that he wants to reach a bipartisan agreement on infrastructure on as much as he can to “kickstart” things, and then when it comes to
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” that there was a “great chance” of getting a deal with President Joe Biden and the Democrats on infrastructure.
“We’re not interested in reopening the 2017 tax bill. We both made it clear to the president,” McConnell said to reporters after meeting with President Joe Biden and members of Congressional leadership at the White House. “That’s our red line.”
When asked by reporters about how compromise with Republicans was achievable, Biden replied wryly, “Easy. Just snap my fingers. It will happen.”
Appearing Monday on CNN’s The Lead, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) criticized President Joe Biden’s infrastructure budget, saying the $2.2 trillion proposal “doesn’t quite go far enough.”
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that President Joe Biden’s roughly $2 trillion plan for the nation’s infrastructure was needed for “national security.”
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is growing tired of President Joe Biden (D) negotiating a sweeping “infrastructure” plan with Republicans.
Corn growers feeding the ethanol gasoline market are unhappy with President Joe Biden’s push for electric vehicles.
CLAIM: President Joe Biden cited a Moody’s study claiming his $2.3 trillion infrastructure bill would create 16 million jobs. VERDICT FALSE. Moody’s said nothing even close to backing Biden’s claim, as numerous fact-checkers have pointed out.
Polling shows the public overwhelmingly opposes a party-line vote, favoring instead a compromise with Republican lawmakers.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was met with a laugh when he predicted as many as 30 Republican senators may vote for the “infrastructure” plan.
Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Republicans were willing to compromise with President Biden on infrastructure, adding “there’s a deal to be had.”
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “progressive taxation” was needed to fund President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package.
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that she would not support the proposed 28% corporate tax rate in President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure package.
The White House has not asked Republicans for “input on major legislation” despite Joe Biden’s unity calls, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) said.
CLAIM: President Joe Biden’s green jobs agenda “will create millions of good-paying jobs that “Americans can raise their families on.”
VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. Biden’s American Jobs Plan threatens American union jobs and the wages of millions of energy workers, union representatives have repeatedly said.
President Joe Biden spoke to a joint session of Congress Wednesday, touting tax increases from two initiatives as a way of “guaranteeing fairness and justice.”
President Joe Biden reintroduced the $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan or “infrastructure” proposal Wednesday that would drastically alter American business.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in an interview Tuesday the United States should not be “too proud” to learn from countries the Biden administration claims outrank America in infrastructure quality.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said during a virtual town hall Saturday that the infrastructure bill touted by President Joe Biden focuses more on “transitioning to a clean, green economy” than physical infrastructure.
President Joe Biden will introduce a reported $1.8 trillion American Families Plan or “human infrastructure” proposal Wednesday in nearly a 5000 word speech to Congress.
Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX) joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday where he discussed his Safer Schools Act and President Joe Biden’s pricey infrastructure bill.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reacted to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) opposing using reconciliation to pass infrastructure legislation by saying that if Democrats can’t pass needed legislation in a bipartisan way, they will