When Biden was questioned on Wednesday about Republican support for the $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, he cited the CCP virus relief bill and said that the GOP wasn’t fit to participate.
“I would’ve been prepared to compromise, but they didn’t. They didn’t move an inch. Not an inch,” Biden said.
The ten senators are Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Ark.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).
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“In good faith, our group of 10 Republicans worked together to draft a sixth Covid-19 relief package earlier this year,” their statement reads.
“The Administration roundly dismissed our effort as wholly inadequate in order to justify its go-it-alone strategy. Fewer than 24 hours after our meeting in the Oval Office, the Senate Democratic Leader began the process of triggering reconciliation which precluded Republican participation and allowed for the package to pass without a single Republican vote,” the statement says.
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“Our $618 billion proposal was a first offer to the White House designed to open bipartisan negotiations. Our package included the core Covid relief elements of the Biden Administration’s plan, such as providing an identical amount—$160 billion—to support vaccines and testing. In addition, we later upped our offer to $650 billion to increase the size of the stimulus checks.”
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The coalition met with Biden on Feb. 1 to address the specifics of their $618 billion CCP virus relief proposal, later adding another expanded version ($650 billion) that increased the stimulus check amounts.
The Biden administration ended up progressing the proposition forward with only congressional Democrat support.
The senators had previously sent a letter on Jan. 31, explaining their interpretation of how a COVID-19 relief should be.
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Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) told The Epoch Times on Feb. 28 that the vast majority of the COVID-19 relief bill isn’t pointed at actual pandemic relief and is intended to back Democratic-controlled states.
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The congressman said the $1.9 trillion measure is an addition to the $1 trillion already allotted for COVID-19 relief.
“I think most of the American people need to know, we already had a trillion dollars worth of money allocated but not yet spent. Now, we’re going to throw another $1.9 trillion on top of that,” Kelly said at the annual conservative conference in Orlando, Florida.
“And only about 9 percent of that is going to actually go to COVID relief, the other is going to go to backing blue states that have not been able to run themselves the right way.”
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