President Joe Biden is open to extending negotiations over his sweeping infrastructure plan with Republicans past his original Memorial Day deadline, according to Politico.
Biden’s team and the Democrats involved are reportedly planning on ending the talks within a week or two and move on to getting full Democratic support for the legislation if the bipartisan discussions fail to reach any major breakthroughs.
The GOP negotiators, led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), are slated to present their counterproposal, which is expected to have a price tag of nearly $1 trillion, on Thursday.
Progressives like Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are growing impatient with the White House’s drawn-out negotiations with Republicans and have urged Biden to wrap it up.
“If Republicans want to come on board, seriously, great. If not, we’re going to do it alone,” Sanders told Axios earlier this month.
I’m not sure why he continues to talk with them, they’ve made it abundantly clear they hate him/us and will reject anything he offers.
The more rope he gives them the more intransigent they appear when this passes.
Proceed.
He set a deadline for these talks. If he walks that back he will have no clout the next time he sets a deadline…like Obama’s Red Line
I would have hoped that by now Biden would know enough not to waste his time waiting for Republican buy-in to his plans. IT’S NEVER coming, and the longer he waits the more cries there will be that the Infrastructure plan is partisan.
They’re just trying to run out the clock.
Then they will say that Congress in the hands of Democrats can’t get anything done. The Neanderthals in the public will buy it like they always buy it.
Thanks, Manchin.