Speaker Pelosi Pushes Back Against Calls for Lower Price Tag for Infrastructure Bill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats are open to listening to what Republicans have to say on infrastructure legislation but appears to push back on calls by them and West Virginia's Senator Manchin for a smaller price tag than the $2.5 trillion proposed by the president, saying, "that it can't be too small, because what we're talking about now needs to be transformative and it has to be big." She says the country needs a major infrastructure plan on a par with President Eisenhower's interstate highway system that was she says was introduced on a bipartisan basis by Al Gore, Sr.

"You've got to think big, you can't think small when you're talking about the greatness of American," the speaker says. close