Infrastructure and a 9/11-style commission to investigate the deadly Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol dominated the Sunday morning political shows.
White House officials last Friday presented a $1.7 trillion counterproposal to Republicans in pursuit of a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, reducing the price tag of President Biden’s infrastructure proposal by $550 billion.
Two days earlier, the House passed a bill to establish a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, earning relatively little support from Republicans as GOP leaders sought to quash a bill negotiated by one of their own members.
Read The Hill’s complete coverage below.
| Biden adviser: Infrastructure counterproposal shows ‘willingness to negotiate in good faith’ |
| By MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
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| Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to President Biden, said the administration’s counterproposal on infrastructure illustrates a “willingness to negotiate in good faith.”
When asked by host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” if Biden is willing to “narrow his plans and his scope even further” to land a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, Richmond highlighted the administration’s counterproposal, which decreased their initial plan by $550 billion.
“The president coming down $550 billion off of his initial proposal I think shows the willingness to negotiate in good faith and in a serious manner. And the real question is whether the Republicans will meet the effort that the president is showing,” Richmond said. |
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| Roy Blunt: ‘Too early’ to create commission to investigate Jan. 6 |
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| “I think it’s too early to create a commission, and I believe Republicans in the Senate will decide that it’s too early to create that commission,” Senior Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt (R) told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “Commissions often don’t work at all and when they do work, like the Simpson-Bowles commission, produced a good result, nothing happened as part of that result.” |
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| Blinken warns of ‘grave’ humanitarian situation in Gaza |
| By OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN |
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| “It was critical to get to the ceasefire, and President Biden’s focus on relentless, determined, but quiet diplomacy is what got us to where we needed to be, which is to get the violence ended as quickly as possible, to stop more human suffering and to at least put ourselves in position to make a turn to make a pivot to building something more positive, that has to start now with dealing with the grave humanitarian situation in Gaza,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. |
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| Rand Paul: ‘I’m not getting vaccinated’ |
| By JORDAN WILLIAMS |
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| “Until they show me evidence that people who have already had the infection are dying in large numbers, or being hospitalized or getting very sick, I just made my own personal decision that I’m not getting vaccinated because I’ve already had the disease and I have natural immunity,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said. |
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