White House infrastructure talks with Capito collapse, leading to fingerpointing as Biden shifts

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Source: Washington Post



President Biden and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.a) ended negotiations over the president’s infrastructure package on Tuesday as the two sides failed to strike a deal after weeks of talks. The administration will now focus its efforts on conversations with a bipartisan group of senators, as it continues to search for support for the president’s wide-ranging infrastructure package, an administration official said Tuesday.

Biden spoke Tuesday afternoon with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who has been part of the bipartisan effort, which will meet Tuesday evening, as well as Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.a) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).An administration official said the talks with Capito, the GOP’s top negotiator, fell apart after the president could not get her group to increase their overall spending on the plan, and they continued to disagree on how to pay for it.

The official said Capito’s group offered $330 billion in new investment, an increase of $150 billion since their initial proposal. The president cut his top line number by $1 trillion, after he had originally proposed a $2.2 trillion infrastructure package.“He informed Senator Capito today that the latest offer from her group did not, in his view, meet the essential needs of our country to restore our roads and bridges, prepare us for our clean energy future, and create jobs,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.

“He offered his gratitude to her for her efforts and good faith conversations, but expressed his disappointment that, while he was willing to reduce his plan by more than $1 trillion, the Republican group had increased their proposed new investments by only $150 billion.” But Capito pinned the blame on the president, saying she was “disappointed by his decision” to end the talks after refusing her latest offer on a revised package.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/08/white-house-infrastructure-republican/

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Full headline: White House infrastructure talks with Capito collapse, leading to fingerpointing as Biden shifts strategy

[The Magistrate]

1. Now Put Up The Original Bill, Sir

No good faith negotiation, no reason to sustain any good faith offers made.

[TheRealNorth]

3. +1000

cut out the red state pork.

[pandr32]

4. Yep!

[Midnight Writer]

6. Yep. Give it a vote. Put them on record.

Strange that I see more criticism of Democrats like Manchin and Sinema then of the 50 Republicans who are the true root of the obstruction.

[AZ8theist]

9. You are correct, but.....

...at this point, Manchin and Sinema may as well be part of the 50 Repukes holding up our agenda.

They are one and the same.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. In Total Agreement

Let them vote against America.

[SoCalDavidS]

2. If Only We Could Have Seen This Coming nt

[underpants]

5. They were never going to agree to anything and they never will

They are in full shutdown stall wait it out mode.

[Jay25]

12. Seems Obama's 8 years should have been a big enough hint.

[underpants]

15. We heard that just a few months ago as Biden came in

Don’t wait for the Republicans.

[msongs]

7. repubs add $150 bil and biden cuts $1 trillion. repubs turn it down. whatta surprise to nobody nt

[OnDoutside]

11. Be thankful !

[JohnSJ]

8. Gee, who'd a thunk this would happen

[AZLD4Candidate]

13. You can't have bipartisanship with one side that debates in bad faith

When will Democrats realize that?

Republicans use that word to attack Democrats, saying "they won't work with us to get us what we want," then go cry to their echo chambers when they are the minority

Republicans ignore the word completely and railroad their agenda when they are the majority.

President Biden and the power brokers of the Democratic Party need to wake up.

This is not something I will even attempt if elected if i smell bad-faith involved. I will hammer these people on everything in the Arizona House.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. "When will Democrats realize that?"

They know. This kabuki theater is for Manchin, who supposedly went on and agreed to the "American Rescue Plan" using reconciliation after the kabuki show of attempting "bipartisanship" with that bill and this one will be done with that same tool - but would have to wait until after September 30 when the fiscal ends and the new one begins.