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Infrastructure counter offer a micro-step closer but still far off

The GOP’s second counter-offer on an infrastructure bill brings them closer to President Biden’s bill but the two sides are still very far apart.

Missouri Senator Roy Blunt says their bill would spend more than $900-billion on roads, bridges, broadband and water infrastructure – using unused COVID funds allocated by Congress to complement existing programs,

“Many of the columns on how much we’d need for this and how much we’d need for that just simply didn’t get used up. Better to use that money for something we all want to do than have it set around there for somebody else’s pet project for some time in the future.”

Republicans oppose the president’s bill because it would increase corporate taxes and they say it includes measures that have nothing to do with physical infrastructure.

The White House has rejected the idea of using pandemic relief funds.