Infrastructure Construction

Sanders has drafted his own $6 trillion plan, as Insider previously reported. The bipartisan bill is a fraction of what President Joe Biden proposed.

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on Sunday that he and President Biden are focused on working families amid infrastructure package negotiations. Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," Sanders said he believes lawmakers are becoming "bogged down in numbers" and that it is more important for them to look at the "needs of the American people, what's going on right now."

He just urges the president not to get greedy by using reconciliation for a second package.

WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - A bipartisan infrastructure plan costing a little over $1 trillion, only about a fourth of what President Joe Biden initially proposed, has been gaining support in the U.S. Senate, but disputes continued on Sunday over how it should be funded. Biden told reporters last week...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday said that while he believed what was included in the proposed bipartisan infrastructure bill was "mostly good," he did not support raising the gas tax, issuing fees on electric vehicles or privatizing infrastructure. On NBC's "Meet the Press," host Chuck Todd asked Sanders if...

(Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders told NBC News that he does not support provisions of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, including raising the gas tax, issuing fees on electric vehicles or privatizing infrastructure, per The Hill.

Senate Democrats in tough races next year, namely Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.) and Maggie Hassan (N.H.), say it's more important for an infrastructure spending bill to be bipartisan than for it to fit in all the priorities that President Biden has outlined and his party base are clamoring for. The...

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on Sunday said that the Republicans who helped craft the bipartisan infrastructure proposal unveiled earlier this month are still "absolutely committed" to it despite pushback from both sides of the aisle. While appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," Portman was asked by host Chuck Todd how...

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that President Biden has a chance to determine his legacy amid ongoing infrastructure negotiations. "I would just say to President Biden, you've got a party that's divided. You've got a Republican Party that's willing to meet you in the middle for a trillion dollars of infrastructure that could fundamentally change the way America does business in roads, ports and bridges and accelerate electrical vehicles. You've got to decide what kind of president you are and what kind of presidency you want," Graham said on "Fox News Sunday."