US Republican Senators Make “Much Progress” in Infrastructure Talks

Republican senators from the United States say talks on infrastructure spending have progressed well, although more work is still neededManu Raju, CNN’s chief congressional correspondent, said Wednesday.

Raju tweeted: “Republican senators leaving a closed-door meeting with the bipartisan group say that made “a lot of progress” in conversations tonight, but recognize that there is more work ahead to reach an agreement. Manchin said it was a “very positive” meeting and that it “moved in the right direction.”

This is a positive development, especially after negotiations between US President Joe Biden and Republican Senator Shelley Capito on infrastructure investments were described as a “brick wall.”

Update: CNN’s Raju has released additional details: “A 58-member bipartisan group in the House publishes a $ 761.8 billion proposal in new spending for infrastructure, in an attempt to break the bottleneck. People say that I would spend money for eight years, marking a rare bipartisan agreement on the scope of such a package. “

“The group does not detail how it would be paid, saying it is something they are working on with a bipartisan group of Senate negotiators, including Kyrsten Sinema, Bill Cassidy, Rob Portman and Joe Manchin,” Raju added.

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