Senator John Barrasso, fresh off of a Thanksgiving dinner that he said was 'the most expensive in American history,' appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace to discuss the Biden Administration's 'Build Back Better' infrastructure plan and its impact on inflation.
The Senate has moved closer to passing a $1 trillion infrastructure package after lawmakers from both parties came together and voted to clear a key procedural hurdle.
The White House is making clear that President Joe Biden is opposed to letting the federal gasoline tax rise at the rate of inflation to help pay for an infrastructure package that a bipartisan group of 21 senators is trying to craft.
The budget features whopping deficit projections that would require the government to borrow roughly 50 cents of every dollar it spends this year and next.
The White House has reduced President Joe Biden’s sweeping proposal to $1.7 trillion, but Republican senators are rejecting the compromise as disappointing, saying “vast differences” remain.
President Joe Biden is taking his pitch to Georgia for $4 trillion in spending to rebuild America’s aged infrastructure and vastly expand the government social safety net.