Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Told reporters in his home state Monday that he does not expect any of his fellow Republicans to pay the $ 4.1 trillion “Grab Bag” and President Biden for the tax increase. Will support spending proposed by
“If they can’t get all their ducks in a row, then to use cohesion again they have to do every single Democrat in the Senate, in line, in lockstep, to do that. Many of them are saying That they agree with us, “McConnell said, according to Fox News.
“I think it’s worth talking about, but I don’t think any Republican senator for a $ 4.1 trillion grab bag, none, would have zero, which has the infrastructure, but a whole lot of other stuff.”
Biden’s plan is divided into two legislative proposals: the $ 1.8 trillion American Family Plan, and the $ 2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan.
The latter proposal calls for government investment in transportation infrastructure, power grids and water systems, as well as the construction, preservation or retrofitting of more than two million homes and commercial buildings to be more energy efficient.
Congressional Republicans count a $ 568 billion package that focuses more narrowly on transportation infrastructure.
McConnell said Monday that Republicans were open to discussing a bill of that size and scope, as well as “how to pay in any way other than reopening the 2017 tax reform bill, which I believe – and my All members believe that – by February 2020, the best economy in 50 years has been created. ”
A prominent Senate Democrat who has bald at the expense of the law, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who reported Journalists from his home state Last week that he was “looking for a traditional infrastructure bill.”
“I don’t think we should have a $ 2.3 trillion bill with all the different subjects,” he said.
“Whether it is $ 500 billion or $ 600 billion… or $ 1 trillion, we must pay for it, and we must ensure that we do not proceed on this crippling debt and pass it on to future generations. “
Last month, Manchin made a West Virginia Radio Station He opposed raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% to pay the law, although he said he was willing to move the rate to 25%.
In March, Democrats used reconciliation – a parliamentary process that allows the passing of three budgetary bills per year by a simple majority – to pass the $ 1.9 trillion US rescue plan.
Last month, Senate MP Elizabeth McDonough ruled that the process could be used for the second time in this fiscal year if the legislation is presented as a budget amendment.
However, none of this will matter, but if Senate Republicans stand against the law and Democrats cannot get what they want.
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