Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday time is running short for a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, indicating that President Joe Biden will look to act without Republican support if there is no consensus when Congress returns from its Memorial Day break.맥스카지노�By the time that they return, which is June 7, just a week from tomorrow, we need a clear direction,맥스카지노� Buttigieg said. 맥스카지노�The president keeps saying inaction is not an option. And time is not unlimited here." He said the American people 맥스카지노�expect us to do something.맥스카지노�Biden plans to meet with lead Republican negotiator, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, this coming week and says he remains open to hearing from other GOP senators who are working on different proposals. But Biden has been eying the dwindling timeline for a deal, with an early June hearing scheduled on a House transportation bill that is widely seen as a building block for the big package he favors.Democratic senators also plan on moving forward on a sweeping infrastructure package 맥스카지노�with or without the support of Republican senators,맥스카지노� Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote to Democrats on Friday. Biden had originally set a Memorial Day deadline for reaching a deal before he let that deadline slip back.The two sides remain far apart. Republican senators last week outlined a $928 billion infrastructure proposal as a counteroffer to Biden맥스카지노�s $1.7 trillion proposal, and they said they would not go along with his plans to raise the corporate tax from 21% to 28% to pay for new spending. Republicans want to shift unspent COVID-19 relief dollars to help cover the costs, a nonstarter for many Democrats and a proposal that Biden is finding unworkable, a White House adviser told The Associated Press on Friday.On Sunday, Capito said she remained hopeful the two sides can move closer to agreement.맥스카지노�I think we can get to real compromise, absolutely, because we맥스카지노�re both still in the game,맥스카지노� she said. 맥스카지노�I think the president told me himself that 'let맥스카지노�s get this done.' We realize this is not easy. I think we bring every idea that맥스카지노�s on the table into the negotiations to see how we can achieve this and get it across the threshold.맥스카지노� Capito said Republicans still disagree with Biden on what should be considered 맥스카지노�infrastructure,맥스카지노� saying it should focus on the 맥스카지노�physical core idea맥스카지노� such as roads, bridges, ports and even newer things such as broadband, but not elder care as Biden proposes. But Capito said that she believes his 맥스카지노�heart맥스카지노� is in the bipartisan talks, and that there remains a 맥스카지노�hunger for bipartisanship.맥스카지노�맥스카지노�I think that맥스카지노�s what we see and, in fact, we are inching towards one another,맥스카지노� she insisted.Buttigieg said while Republicans 맥스카지노�philosophically seem to agree that trillion-dollar investments are the kind of thing we need to be doing right now,맥스카지노� there is 맥스카지노�a lot of daylight맥스카지노� between the two sides, such as investments to boost the electric vehicle market to shift Americans away from gas-powered cars to stem greenhouse gas emissions.The GOP plan amounts to about $250 billion in new spending, far from the president맥스카지노�s approach. Biden reduced his $2.3 trillion opening bid to $1.7 trillion in earlier negotiations.맥스카지노�I think we are getting pretty close to a fish-or-cut-bait moment,맥스카지노� Buttigieg said Sunday. 맥스카지노�We believe in this process, but also very much agree that this can맥스카지노�t go on forever.맥스카지노� ___Associated Press writers Jonathan Lemire and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.