Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday said Republicans are “open to spending some more” on an infrastructure package after GOP senators unveiled a $928 …
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday said Republicans are “open to spending some more” on an infrastructure package after GOP senators unveiled a $928 billion counterproposal. When asked if Thursday’s proposal, which was spearheaded by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), is the caucus’s final offer, McConnell said, “No, we going to keep talking.” “We would like to get an outcome on a significant infrastructure package,” the minority leader said in an appearance on CNBC. “And what we have already recommended, on a bipartisan basis out of one of the Senate committees just this week, is more than we have done over a multiyear infrastructure bill. So we’re open to spending some more.” The GOP’s new plan is substantially more than their initial $568 billion proposal introduced in April, but still falls far short of the $1.
