A group of 10 Republican senators meeting President Biden
Joe Biden Iran’s spy-linked ship attacked at sea Biden exceeds vaccine expectations – so far Jill Biden visits Alabama with actress Jennifer Garner MORE Before its first official Oval Office visit on Feb. 1, the Biden administration said on Wednesday that the Biden administration “flatly rejected” our attempt to reach a two-pronged compromise on a COVID-19 aid package.
The 10 lawmakers issued a joint statement referring to Biden’s criticisms earlier in the day that the group of predominantly moderate Republicans “didn’t move an inch” of their proposal to spend $ 618 billion on the pandemic relief package that Congress last year. month.
Democrats eventually passed the US $ 1.9 trillion bailout, which was largely based on Biden’s original proposal, without a single Republican vote in the Senate or the House.
Leader of the majority of the Senate Charles Schumer
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“The government flatly rejected our efforts as completely inadequate to justify its own strategy,” the senators said in their statement.
“Less than 24 hours after our meeting in the Oval Office, the Democratic leader of the Senate began the process to initiate reconciliation, which excluded Republican participation, allowing the package to be passed without a single Republican vote,” they said. .
The group of Republican Senators, led by Susan Collins
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Shelley Wellons Moore CapitoAmerica’s Infrastructure: You Get What You Pay For Republicans Don’t Think Biden Really Wants To Work With Them House Freedom Caucus Chair Objects Infrastructure Proposal MORE (W.Va.) made the statement to refute Biden’s claim that they did not want to compromise.
“A Republican group came to me, and they started with $ 600 billion, and that was it,” Biden told reporters on Wednesday when asked if he would not keep his pledge to bring duality to Washington if the Republicans are united again. would vote against him. $ 2.25 trillion infrastructure plan.
The president said he was willing to put together a two-pronged pandemic relief package, but Republican lawmakers declined to give any ground.
“I would have been willing to compromise, but they didn’t. They didn’t move an inch. Not an inch, ”he said.
The GOP senators noted on Wednesday that their $ 618 billion proposal “included key COVID auxiliary elements of the Biden administration’s plan,” such as providing $ 160 billion to support vaccines and testing.
They also pointed out that they offered to increase the size of the package to $ 650 billion in order to increase the size of the proposed stimulus controls.
The clash between Biden and GOP senators bodes badly for the prospect that his Build Back Better infrastructure plan will receive a lot of bipartisan support.
Minority leader in the Senate Mitch McConnell
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