WASHINGTON—President Biden and a bipartisan group of lawmakers discussed how to pay for his $2.3 trillion infrastructure package during a meeting with at the White House Monday, according to attendees.
During the roughly two-hour discussion, Republicans said they remain opposed to raising taxes on corporations and pushed for a narrower package. Mr. Biden showed an openness to breaking his proposal into smaller parts and considering different ways to pay for it, according to lawmakers who attended the meeting.
The meeting was the latest in a series the White House has held with lawmakers on Capitol Hill involved in infrastructure funding and policy, though it will be the first since Mr. Biden rolled out his framework.
Seated with lawmakers in the Oval Office before the meeting, Mr. Biden said he was prepared to negotiate on the “extent of the infrastructure project as well as how we pay for it.”
“I think everyone acknowledges that we need a significant increase in infrastructure. It’s going to get down to what we call infrastructure,” he said, citing water and broadband internet as examples. “I’m confident that everything is going to work out perfectly.”
