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BIDEN TELLS SCHUMER TO PREPARE PARTY-LINE VOTE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN AS TALKS WITH GOP BREAK DOWN
Chris Sommerfeldt - 1 hr ago
New York Daily News

President Biden is ordering Senate Democrats to start preparing for the increasingly likely scenario that they’ll have to pass his infrastructure plan via a complex legislative process that doesn’t require GOP support, signaling that his patience for negotiating with the Republicans is drying up.

Biden, who has tried to reach a compromise with GOP negotiators for weeks, told Senate Majority Leader Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday to “commence work” on a so-called reconciliation resolution for the infrastructure bill he envisions costing at least $1.7 trillion, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.

Reconciliation is a long-winded budgetary process that allows the Senate to pass legislation in simple majority votes, circumventing the customary 60-vote threshold. Biden’s green light for the go-it-alone alternative suggests he’s coming around to the fact that his infrastructure package may not get any Republican votes.

Still, Psaki said Biden is holding out hope for a bipartisan deal. First off, he will switch up who he’s talking to from the other side of the aisle, she said.

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