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