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Posted: 2021-06-08T22:04:07Z | Updated: 2021-06-08T22:04:07Z

The White House is done trying to negotiate on infrastructure with a group of Republicans after weeks of talks between President Joe Bidens administration and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) came to an unceremonious end Tuesday.

The administration is now turning its attention toward a broader bipartisan group of 20 senators, which includes Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah), as they continue to seek at least some GOP support for an infrastructure package.

The administration also said it was working with Democratic leaders in Congress to ensure passage of an infrastructure package this summer, aiming to alleviate anger from progressives eager for the White House to give up hope on reaching a deal with the GOP.

Biden had a call with Capito Tuesday, after meeting with the lead Republican negotiator on infrastructure in the White House last week a conversation that Capito said was the end of talks between the two parties.

I spoke with the president this afternoon, and he ended our infrastructure negotiations, Capito said.

Republicans had offered a plan half the size of what the White House has proposed on infrastructure, one that included far less in new federal spending on infrastructure projects. It also did not address key priorities sought by Democrats on climate, housing and elder care.

White House officials said Biden had been willing to cut more than $1 trillion in spending from his original proposal, while Republicans had only offered $150 billion in new spending since the start of negotiations.

Biden informed Senator Capito today that the latest offer from her group did not, in his view, meet the essential needs of our country to restore our roads and bridges, prepare us for our clean energy future, and create jobs, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.

In the end, Republicans refused to engage on major tax provisions like an increased corporate tax rate that the Biden administration initially wanted to see in the bill. Biden, meanwhile, made a major concession: offering to leave the current, historically low corporate tax rate intact in exchange for a minimum corporate tax rate.