Category: infrastructure bill

Manchin Says He Supports Democrats’ Partisan infrastructure Bill

With the White House still in talks on a bipartisan infrastructure bill that focuses on core infrastructure needs, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who favors bipartisanship, said on Tuesday that he’s supportive of going forward with a larger infrastructure bill that received zero Republican support, but that it shouldn’t be tied to the bipartisan one. Manchin last week…


McConnell Says He Needs to See How Infrastructure Deal Will Be ‘Credibly Paid For’ Before Backing

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters on Monday that he remains undecided on whether to back the bipartisan infrastructure plan due to concerns about how the measure will be paid for. McConnell made the remarks at a press conference in Louisville, in response to a reporter asking whether he would support the $1.2…


‘Certainly Not My Intent’: Biden Walks Back Infrastructure Veto Remarks

WASHINGTON—U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday withdrew his threat to veto a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill unless a separate Democratic spending plan also passes Congress, saying that was not his intent. Moments after announcing the bipartisan deal on Thursday, Biden appeared to put it in jeopardy with his comment that the infrastructure bill would…


Manchin: It’s ‘Inevitable’ Democrats Will Push Partisan Infrastructure Package

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Thursday that it was “inevitable” that Democrats would try to move forward with the Democrat-only infrastructure package after President Joe Biden said he will not sign the smaller bipartisan infrastructure package without a guarantee about his larger proposal being passed in the Senate. “Reconciliation is inevitable because, basically, Republicans I understand on the tax,…


Biden Says He Won’t Sign Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Without Reconciliation

President Joe Biden on Thursday told reporters that he won’t be signing the bipartisan infrastructure deal if Congress does not also pass a another measure—a budget resolution that Democrats call “human infrastructure” that they want to push through via reconciliation to bypass the Senate filibuster. Biden told reporters at the White House that he would not sign the…


Biden Objects to Raising Gas Tax to Pay for Infrastructure

WASHINGTON—The White House made clear Friday that President Joe Biden was opposed to letting the federal gasoline tax rise at the rate of inflation to help pay for an infrastructure package that a bipartisan group of 21 senators is trying to craft. The gas tax increase was part of an early package that called for…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (June 17)

President Joe Biden raised questions about the origin of the CCP virus and whether the Chinese regime actually wants to help the world find the truth. A key moderate Democrat says he will not support a partisan infrastructure bill in exchange for support for his own bipartisan infrastructure package. This, while Democrats call for funding…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (June 9)

The Senate passes a bill to boost the U.S. tech industry to help it compete with Chinese tech. What do Democrat and Republican supporters have to say about it? Vice President Kamala Harris says her trip to Central America was a success and that she will visit the border. This, while Texans push for control…


Sorry, Joe: Fixing Roads and Bridges Doesn’t Cost $2 Trillion

Commentary The Biden White House is furiously trying to cajole congressional Republicans into signing off on his $2 trillion “infrastructure bill.” So far, they’ve held firm in saying not just no but “hell, no” to new taxes and spending to pay for all this. It turns out that a bill to fix our roads and…


Biden’s War on Single-Family Homeowners

Commentary If you saved your money and bought a house in the suburbs, your investment and lifestyle are under attack. President Joe Biden is pushing to end single-family zoning. The biggest item in Biden’s infrastructure bill, now being negotiated with Congress, is $213 billion he claims will to increase affordable housing. Biden wants to put…