Republican resistance grows over Biden's infrastructure and policing plans
CNN
GOP opposition is hardening over a massive infrastructure plan and a revamp of policing laws, scrambling the prospects of two of President Joe Biden's top domestic priorities at a crucial juncture on Capitol Hill.
Republicans are pushing back at Biden's efforts to tie a bipartisan Senate deal on infrastructure with a larger package of Democratic priorities, warning that such a tactic will cause GOP support to crater and could torpedo the $1.2 trillion accord reached between the two parties. And several members of the group of 11 Republicans who signed off on the bipartisan deal are upset at Biden's tactics, privately warning that they too could walk away from the deal, according to GOP sources. On policing, a number of Republicans say the rise in crime across the US has caused them to rethink support for a bipartisan effort to overhaul law enforcement practices -- just as the GOP is again settling on a "law-and-order" message in its push to retake Congress in next year's midterms.President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.