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Senate Republicans insist bipartisan infrastructure deal is possible while slamming size and scope of White House proposal
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Several Senate Republicans insisted on Sunday that they were open to a bipartisan deal on a narrow infrastructure plan, despite slamming the size and scope of President Joe Biden's massive infrastructure proposal.
Biden unveiled a roughly $2 trillion dollar package in March that aims to improve the nation's infrastructure and shift to greener energy over the next eight years, while GOP senators have floated their alternative infrastructure plan closer to $600 billion. The White House has intensified conversations with key Republicans on infrastructure in recent days, but the two sides are still far apart on the bill's key elements, such as its price tag and corporate tax increases to pay for it -- leaving a bipartisan deal on the President's legislative priority in question. "Now that the Republicans have put forth a reasonable offer, it's up to the President to do a counteroffer to us," Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday.More Related News

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