President Joe Biden is cutting short talks with West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito over infrastructure and will instead try to broker a deal with a bipartisan group of senators, the White House confirmed.
Biden believes Capito’s counter-proposal to spend $978 billion on so-called “hard” infrastructure does not meet the “essential needs” of the country to improve roads and bridges, fund clean energy projects, or spur the pandemic-hampered economy by creating jobs, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
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