'They've got a 50/50 Senate, which means absolutely every single one of them has got to agree,' said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell believes that President Joe Biden's American Jobs Plan will likely need bipartisan support to pass in Congress. McConnell is pictured during a press conference in Washington, D.C. on April 27, 2021."[Manchin has] been quite vocal about this, he thinks it's way overdone as well," added McConnell."I think they'll see if they can pass this thing by getting everybody in line.
McConnell and Biden appear to be at least $1.3 trillion apart in terms of a price cap, with the minority leader suggesting that the"proper price tag" of any infrastructure proposal should be between $600 billion and $800 billion. Manchin told reporters that he was"uncomfortable" with the price tag of Biden's plan before the president outlined it during a joint session of
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