Republicans plan to send Biden infrastructure counter offer worth nearly $1 trillion

Senate Republicans intend to send President Joe Biden a nearly $1 trillion counter proposal on infrastructure spending Thursday, just days before Biden's deadline.

Senate Republicans intend to send President Joe Biden a nearly $1 trillion counter proposal on infrastructure spending Thursday, the latest attempt to make progress toward a bipartisan compromise just days before the president's deadline. Biden has for weeks said that he needs to see "significant' progress on an infrastructure deal by Memorial Day. According to the group of Republican senators crafting the new offer, it will be the closest Republicans have yet come to Biden's initial proposal. "It will end up being the most substantial infrastructure bill ever enacted by the federal government and if the president gets to make the decision he will accept it," Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said. "This is going to be a very good offer and it moves in his direction." Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., who is leading the Republican group of senators working on infrastructure, said Tuesday that she still thinks a deal could be struck, but the parties remain far apart.