NPR
By ALANA WISE
May 13, 2021
President Biden continued conversations with congressional Republicans on Thursday in the hopes of landing a bipartisan deal on an infrastructure package, but major hurdles persist over what items would be in the measure, and how it might be paid for. Biden has pitched a roughly $2 trillion infrastructure plan, in addition to another massive spending proposal on families and education. Following Thursday's meeting, Biden said the conversation had not yet led to any concrete compromises, but that he had outlined to the Republican leadership his ambitions for the package's scope and source of funding. Biden said the two camps agreed that Republicans would return with a counter offer and that discussions on the matter would continue next week.
View the full article: NPR.org