McConnell Sees 'Zero' GOP Support on Biden Infrastructure Plan

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., doubted "there will be any Republican support -- none, zero,” for President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal, which includes $100 billion for broadband (see 2103310064). Republicans signaled support for pursuing core infrastructure spending; the Senate GOP’s counterproposal includes $65 billion for broadband (see 2104220067). “We're open to doing a roughly $600 billion package which deals with what all of us agree is infrastructure," McConnell told reporters Monday. "If it's going to be about infrastructure, let's make it about infrastructure.” Republicans “are not going to revisit" the 2017 tax cut law, as Biden proposed to pay here, McConnell said.