基础设施之间的谈判总统乔·拜登和弗吉尼亚州参议员谢莉·摩尔·卡皮托。
白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基(Jen Psaki)在周二下午的一份声明中说:“他今天告诉卡皮托参议员，在他看来，她所在的组织最近的提议没有满足我们国家修复道路和桥梁、为我们的清洁能源未来做准备以及创造就业机会的基本需求。”
“他对她的努力和真诚的谈话表示感谢，但表示失望的是，尽管他愿意将他的计划减少1万多亿美元，但共和党人只增加了1500亿美元的拟议新投资，”她补充说。
在国会山，卡皮托告诉美国广播公司新闻，“我们有一个强大的一揽子计划，我们可以让它发挥作用，我认为我可以让20-25名共和党人和我一起去。”
“他们几次把球门柱移到我身上，然后他们就决定走开，”她补充道。
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弗吉尼亚州共和党参议员谢莉·摩尔·卡皮托在国会大厦走向投票站时与记者交谈
当被问及下一步该做什么时，她说:“你必须问他。”
关于基础设施的争论已经持续了几个星期，两党的最高数字逐渐趋于一致。双方成本的巨大差异部分是由于对法案范围的根本分歧。共和党人认为，白宫一揽子计划中的儿童保育、家庭护理、工作培训和其他“人力基础设施”元素在基础设施法案中没有一席之地。
一位政府官员说，白宫继续前进谈判共和党人现在，总统将把注意力转向与两党参议员小组接触，以寻求基础设施方面的协议，他欢迎卡皮托加入这个小组。
普萨基说，拜登已经与亚利桑那州参议员基尔斯顿·西内马、共和党参议员比尔·卡西迪进行了交谈。和乔·曼钦。
“他敦促他们继续与其他民主党人和共和党人合作，制定一项两党提案，他希望该提案将更好地应对该国紧迫的基础设施需求，”普萨基说。
随着拜登和卡皮托之间的会谈现在搁置，希尔的注意力转向了那个两党小组，这个小组已经在幕后开会制定了几个星期的计划。
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米特·罗姆尼、克斯滕·西内马、苏珊·科林斯、乔·曼钦和马克·沃纳将于10点30分离开
辛尼玛和俄亥俄州参议员罗布·波特曼一起领导着这个小组。消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，他们的联盟正在瞄准一项价格约为9000亿美元的提案，该组织计划与其他20名中间派参议员分享他们的框架。
周二晚上，一个至少由10名温和派组成的小组开会讨论了一项可能的协议。
波特曼和犹他州共和党参议员米特·罗姆尼(Mitt Romney)也参与了谈判，他们都表示，他们的谈判正在等待，直到卡皮托表示她的努力已经结束。
多数党领袖查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer)在周二的新闻发布会上似乎对两党谈判可能产生结果感到乐观，但这位参议员很清楚，幕后制定的一揽子计划并不是民主党人，特别是白宫和进步人士在基础设施方面想要做的全部。
拜登提出了一项全面的立法，包括为儿童保育、老年人护理、新学校和电动汽车提供资金，共和党人认为这些远远超出了传统上被认为是基础设施的范围。最初，拜登的提议价值约4万亿美元。
舒默周二表示，如果获得两党协议，他计划使用一种被称为和解的快速预算程序，以50张民主党选票推动所有剩余的民主党基础设施优先事项。
“这不会是唯一的答案，”舒默谈到西内马-波特曼的努力时说。“我们都知道，作为一个核心小组，我们无法以完全两党合作的方式——以两党合作的方式——完成国家需要的所有事情，因此，与此同时，我们正在寻求和解。与此同时，这种情况还在继续，很可能法案的这一部分将由两党通过，另一部分将通过和解。但我们不会牺牲这项法案的宏大和大胆。”
拜登准备在周三离开，开始他作为总统的第一次外交之旅。普萨基表示，他将在欧洲之行中与致力于达成协议的两党小组成员保持联系，并要求他的乔布斯内阁成员和白宫助手史蒂夫·里奇蒂(Steve Ricchetti)、路易莎·特雷尔(Louisa Terrell)和布莱恩·迪斯(Brian Deese)亲自与他们会面，以推动事态向前发展。
Biden-Capito infrastructure negotiations have ended
Infrastructurenegotiations betweenPresidentJoe Bidenand Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., have ended.
"He 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 Tuesday afternoon.
"He offered his gratitude to her for her efforts and good faith conversations, but expressed his disappointment that, while he was willing to reduce his plan by more than $1 trillion, the Republican group had increased their proposed new investments by only $150 billion," she added.
On Capitol Hill, Capito told ABC News, "We had a robust package that we could've made work and I think I could've gotten 20-25 Republicans to go with me."
"They moved the goal posts on me a couple of times and they just decided to walk away," she added.
Asked what's next, she said, "You'll have to ask him."
The back and forth over infrastructure has gone on for weeks now, with top-line figures for both parties eking gradually toward one another. The sizable cost difference between the two sides was due in part to fundamental disagreements about the scope of the bill. Republicans have argued that things like child care, home care, work training and other "human infrastructure" elements of the White House package have no place in an infrastructure bill.
An administration official said that with the White Housemoving on fromnegotiationswith Republicans, the president will now turn his focus to engaging with a bipartisan group of senators to find a deal on infrastructure -- a group he would welcome Capito to join.
That engagement has already begun -- Psaki said Biden spoke with Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Joe Manchin D-W.Va., on Tuesday.
"He urged them to continue their work with other Democrats and Republicans to develop a bipartisan proposal that he hopes will be more responsive to the country's pressing infrastructure needs," Psaki said.
With talks between Biden and Capito now sidelined, attention on the Hill has turned to that bipartisan group that has been meeting behind the scenes to craft a plan for several weeks.
Sinema is leading that group, along with Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio. Sources told ABC News their coalition is zeroing in on a proposal with a price tag of roughly $900 billion and the group is planning to share their framework with 20 other centrist-minded senators.
A group of at least 10 moderates met to discuss a possible deal Tuesday evening.
Portman and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, who is also involved in the talks, each described their negotiations as waiting in the wings until Capito indicated that her effort had reached its end.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at a press conference on Tuesday seemed optimistic that the bipartisan negotiations could yield a result, but the senator was clear the package being crafted behind the scenes is not all that Democrats, particularly the White House and progressives, want to do on the infrastructure front.
Biden has proposed sweeping legislation, including funding for child care, elder care, new schools, and electric vehicles that Republicans consider far outside what is traditionally considered infrastructure. Originally, Biden's proposals were worth roughly $4 trillion.
Schumer, on Tuesday, said that he plans to use a fast-track budget procedure known as reconciliation to push through all of the remaining Democratic infrastructure priorities with just 50 Democratic votes, if a bipartisan deal is obtained.
"That's not going to be the only answer," Schumer said of the Sinema-Portman effort. "We all know as a caucus, we will not be able to do all the things that the country needs in a totally bipartisan – in a bipartisan way, and so at the same time we are pursuing the pursuit of reconciliation. And that is going on at the same time, and it may well be that part of the bill that'll pass will be bipartisan and part of it will be through reconciliation. But we're not going to sacrifice the bigness and boldness in this bill."
Biden is preparing to depart on his first foreign trip as president on Wednesday. Psaki said he would stay in contact with members of the bipartisan group working on a deal during his trip in Europe, and tasked members of his Jobs Cabinet and White House aides Steve Ricchetti, Louisa Terrell and Brian Deese to meet with them in person to move the ball forward.
