Category: Biden infrastructure package

Biden’s $5.8 Trillion Proposed Spending Plan Calls on Congress to Fill in the Blanks

March 29, 2022
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President Joe Biden’s proposed United States’ federal $5.8 trillion Fiscal Year 2023 budget increases overall domestic spending by 7 percent, boosts military allocations by 10 percent and includes a raft of new tax levies for high-income earning individuals while raising the corporate income tax from 21 percent to 28 percent. The 149-page proposed budget introduced…

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Republican Senators Make New Counteroffer to Biden’s $1.7 Trillion Infrastructure Plan

May 27, 2021
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Republican senators outlined a $928 billion infrastructure proposal on Thursday, in their ongoing effort to negotiate with President Joe Biden’s initial $1.7 trillion package. Senator Shelley Capito (R-W.Va.) told reporters at a press briefing that she has been involved in several months of negotiations with the White House and thinks this bill is a good…

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GOP Senators Object to Unrelated Items in Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Package

April 9, 2021
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Republican senators say they fully support fixing infrastructure, but oppose President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure package because includes unrelated items that unnecessarily increase the national debt. “It’s mostly not spending money on infrastructure and so it seems that they have established no upper bound limit on how much we spend, no questions have been…

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