GOP Senator Blunt: White House would have 'easy win' by making spending bill infrastructure only

Missouri GOP Sen. Roy Blunt is suggesting President Biden cut his newly proposed, roughly $2 trillion spending package to its essential infrastructure proposals to get congressional Republicans’ support and argues they won’t support a corporate tax hike to fund the measure after approving a rate cut in 2017.

"I think there’s an easy win here for the White House if they would take that win, which is make this an infrastructure package,” Blunt, a member of GOP Senate leadership said on “Fox News Sunday.”

The senator, known for his bipartisan deal making and who is not seeking 2022 reelection, estimates only about 30% of the package is infrastructure related.

Blunt also said the proposal right now includes about $400 billion expenditure on care for the elderly and disabled, as well as billions more on allocations unrelated to infrastructure. 

Blunt argued keeping the bill as such would be a “big mistake for the administration," and suggested revamping it to focus on roads, bridges, ports, airports and perhaps underground water systems and broadband.