- June 19, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Rep. Ben Cline says Republicans are asking both sides to ‘come together’ on infrastructure definition
Senate Democrats are considering a sweeping $6 trillion spending package that could be passed without any Republican support, even as bipartisan talks on Capitol Hill for an infrastructure bill gain momentum.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the chair of the Senate Budget Committee, confirmed that Democrats are weighing a $6 trillion reconciliation bill that builds on the dual economic proposals unveiled earlier this year by President Biden: The $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan and the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan.
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“The president has given us a framework, I think it’s a comprehensive and serious framework,” Sanders, I-Vt., told reporters on Thursday. “It is the function of the Congress now to take that framework and go with it.”
Under an early draft of the plan – which Sanders…
