WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced on Thursday a hard-earned bipartisan agreement on a pared-down infrastructure plan that would make a start on his top legislative priority and validate his efforts to reach across the political aisle. But he openly acknowledged that Democrats will likely have to tackle much of the rest on their own. The bill’s price tag at $973 billion over five years, or $1.2 trillion over eight years, is a scaled-back but still significant
By AI HEPING in New York | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-06-25 09:33 Share CLOSE US President Joe Biden exits the West Wing of the White House for talking to the media, following a bipartisan meeting with US senators about the proposed framework for the infrastructure bill, at the White House in Washington, US, June 24, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
After months of negotiations, US President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that he and a bipartisan group of senators had agreed on a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure deal. We have a deal, Biden said, standing with the 10 senators in the West Wing driveway after their 30-minute Oval Office meeting. They ve given me their word, he said of the group of five Republicans and five Democrats. Where I come from, that s good enough for me.
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THE PRESIDENT: We had a really good meeting. And to answer your direct question, we have a deal. And I think it’s really important we’ve all agreed that none of us got what we all that we wanted. I clearly didn’t get all I wanted. They gave more than, I think, maybe they were inclined to give in the first place.
But this reminds me of the days we used to get an awful lot done up at the United States Congress. We actually worked with one we had bipartisan deals. Bipartisan deals means compromise.
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