{"id":4997,"date":"2021-04-20T15:52:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4997"},"modified":"2021-04-20T15:52:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:52:52","slug":"liberals-warn-biden-against-lengthy-talks-with-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4997","title":{"rendered":"Liberals warn Biden against lengthy talks with GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Liberals are wary that the GOP may be trying to prolong infrastructure talks for weeks or even months, potentially setting back Democrats\u2019 ambitious agenda as Biden goes back and forth with the opposition party over how big to go and when. But several prominent progressives also want to keep giving Biden room to try with Republicans \u2014 up to a still-undetermined point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the moment, the two sides seem very far apart: Biden\u2019s initial infrastructure spending pitch was more than $2 trillion, with a second part of the plan still in development. And several Democrats said Monday they seriously doubt that discussions with the GOP will produce anything at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republicans have not indicated they would be willing to spend anything more than $800 billion \u2014 a paltry sum for Democrats \u2014 and even that might be a stretch. And while liberals in Congress aren\u2019t yet asking Biden to ditch the talks altogether, they are clearly signaling that his patience, like theirs, should be finite.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/19\/biden-liberals-gop-infrastructure-483272\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/19\/biden-liberals-gop-infrastructure-483272<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Liberals are wary that the GOP may be trying to prolong infrastructure talks for weeks or even months, potentially setting back Democrats\u2019 ambitious agenda as Biden goes back and forth with the opposition party over how big to go and when. But several prominent progressives also want to keep giving Biden room to try with Republicans \u2014 up to a still-undetermined point.<br \/>\n^<br \/>\nAt the moment, the two sides seem very far apart: Biden\u2019s initial infrastructure spending pitch was more than $2 trillion, with a second part of the plan still in development. And several Democrats said Monday they seriously doubt that discussions with the GOP will produce anything at all.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have not indicated they would be willing to spend anything more than $800 billion \u2014 a paltry sum for Democrats \u2014 and even that might be a stretch. And while liberals in Congress aren\u2019t yet asking Biden to ditch the talks altogether, they are clearly signaling that his patience, like theirs, should be finite.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,988,1247,968,506],"class_list":["post-4997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-democratic-party","tag-infrastructure","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}