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Biden Drops Price Tag on Infrastructure Plan

May 21, 2021 at 3:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Biden’s advisers offered to reduce the price tag of their infrastructure proposal by about a quarter, from $2.25 trillion to $1.7 trillion, in the latest counteroffer to Republicans, Bloomberg reports.

However, Republicans told the Washington Post the offer was “not an encouraging one.”

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