That means Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer
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Senate Republicans proposed a $568 billion infrastructure counteroffer last week. Now, bipartisan talks on a compromise proposal between $600 billion and $1 trillion are just getting started.
Manchin wants time for the talks to build momentum.
“For the sake of our country, we have to show we can work in a bipartisan way,” he said Monday evening. “I don’t know what the rush is.”
“Stay here a little bit, work a little bit,” he advised colleagues.
But Democrats are getting nervous about an extended timeline and worry that splitting Biden’s infrastructure agenda into two or three pieces of legislation might mean that a substantial part of it gets left behind.
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“Some of these issues are conducive to that. I’m hopeful that they’re not trying to like Charlie Brown and the football . because we have members on these issues that are very serious and want to legislate,” Thune said.
The sprouts of bipartisanship comes as big deal-making outside of funding the government or, more recently, coronavirus relief has faltered in recent years amid growing divisions, a shift toward nominations and a use of reconciliation, which allows the party in power to bypass the filibuster, to try to pass big agenda items.
With many of Democrats’ buzziest wish-list items out of reach right now, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer
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Well, all I can tell you is that everybody is sympathetic with the DACA issue, McConnell said, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created under the Obama administration. I can t imagine that we would take up an immigration-related bill, no matter how worthy it might be . without insistence on our part that we address the obvious crisis at the border, McConnell added.
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Republicans believe the border is a weak spot for President Biden, whom they ve struggled to define almost 100 days into the administration.
Biden has been grappling with an influx of migrants at the southern border, many of them unaccompanied children or teenagers. Customs and Border Protection apprehended more than 170,000 people at the U.S.-Mexico border in the month of March, the highest number in at least 15 years.