Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey and a group of Republican Senators are offering their next proposal for a major infrastructure package.
The $928 billion counteroffer focuses on traditional infrastructure projects according to Toomey.
Republicans also say their plan would not raise taxes, instead would utilize COVID relief dollars that they say states haven’t spent yet.
“We passed many trillions of dollars. In many categories we needed much, much less than we thought. And we think many of the categories have nothing to do with COVID, have nothing to do with an economic recovery,” Toomey said. “So we do think this is really an important source of funding this.”
This does fall short of the Biden administration’s $1.7 trillion proposal, but the President said he would talk next week about this particular plan.
