Headline Roundup June 23, 2021
Bipartisan Group, White House Officials Strike Agreement On Infrastructure Framework
Summary from the AllSides News Team
A bipartisan group of senators say they struck a deal with White House officials on infrastructure framework Wednesday, and that they will present their proposal to President Joe Biden Thursday. Sen. Mitt Romney told reporters Wednesday that “we’ve agreed on a framework and we’re gonna be heading to the White House tomorrow." White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday, "White House senior staff had two productive meetings today with the bipartisan group of Senators...the President has invited the group to come to the White House tomorrow to discuss this in-person." While the group has not released the details of the framework, The Hill reported that the deal includes many key "details the group has released in recent weeks," including $579 billion in new spending, amounting to a total of $974 billion over five years and $1.2 trillion over eight years.
News outlets across the spectrum covered the story similarly.
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Breitbart News
A group of Republican and Democrat lawmakers announced Wednesday that they had struck a deal with President Joe Biden on a potential infrastructure package.
The senators will meet with Biden Thursday, although they said that his advisers confirmed that they had signed off on the compromise.
The plan would reportedly include $579 billion in new spending, including several ways to offset the cost of the infrastructure package.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Wednesday:
White House senior staff had two productive meetings today with the bipartisan...
The Washington Post
A bipartisan group of senators tentatively reached an agreement with White House officials Wednesday on hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending for the nation’s infrastructure system, giving a significant boost toward one of President Biden’s biggest domestic policy ambitions.
Multiple senators leaving an evening negotiating session at the Capitol said the group — which included five Democrats, five Republicans and top White House officials — had reached a framework of a deal. They said senators would go to the White House on Thursday to brief Biden personally on...
The Hill
Senators involved in bipartisan negotiations say they and White House officials have agreed to an infrastructure "framework," and they'll meet with President Biden Thursday to brief him.
“Republicans and Democrats have come together, along with the White House, and we’ve agreed on a framework and we’re gonna be heading to the White House tomorrow," Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) told reporters after a meeting Wednesday.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), another member of the group, confirmed the White House officials in the meeting signed off on the framework and that they "came to an agreement."
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