A bipartisan group of senators reached a tentative framework on a $953 billion infrastructure deal Wednesday ahead of a crucial meeting with President Biden at the White House.
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“I’m optimistic that we’ve had a breakthrough," said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).
Following multiple hours-long bipartisan Senate meetings with senior White House aides on a traditional infrastructure package, lawmakers said Wednesday that they have reached a "framework" deal and are headed to the White House to meet with President Joe Biden on Thursday. "We have a framework, and we're going to the White House tomorrow," Sen Mitt Romney, R-Utah, told reporters. "We made significant progress," White House counselor Steve Richetti told ABC News.
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Bipartisan group "wouldn’t be going to the White House if we didn’t think we had something,” Sen. Mark Warner says, though no details have been revealed.
A bipartisan group of Senate negotiators on Wednesday said they reached an infrastructure "framework" deal after weeks of talks regarding the $1.2 trillion package.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of U.S. senators said on Wednesday it had reached a deal on a "framework" for an infrastructure spending bill and planned to discuss it with President Joe Biden on Thursday, although cautioning that unresolved issues remained. "We came to an agreement on a plan that we have and we're just going to try to wrap it up tomorrow," a Democratic negotiator, Joe Manchin, said after the group met with White House officials. The White House said the meeting had been productive.
Negotiators are visiting the White House on Thursday but have not released a detailed proposal.
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(Bloomberg) -- Senators negotiating a bipartisan infrastructure plan with the White House will meet Thursday with President Joe Biden to present an outline for a roughly $559 billion compromise package of spending on roads, bridges and other projects.“We have a framework,” Republican Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, one of the 10 senators involved in the negotiations, said Wednesday after another round of talks with Biden’s aides. “We are going to the White House tomorrow.”The meeting with Biden marks
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