Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Md., advocated Monday for a more narrowly focused infrastructure plan that cuts huge chunks out of the massive $2 trillion proposal put forward by President Joe Biden.
Hogan, speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” also criticized the next phase of Biden’s sweeping economic recovery plan, which is expected to be unveiled this week and will reportedly include tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans.
“We should separate out all of this other family infrastructure they’re talking about and all these massive tax hikes on the rich and on corporations,” Hogan said.
Hogan, who hosted a two-day infrastructure summit last week with a bipartisan group of governors and lawmakers, said that “rebuilding America’s infrastructure is a critical issue that we all agree on, and we all think it should be a bipartisan effort.”
“We can agree on finding that middle ground,” Hogan said, but “the second set of things that the president is apparently going to unveil for the first time on Wednesday is really not – has nothing to do with infrastructure, and most of us think it should be handled separately.”
Hogan has become a prominent figure in the Republican Party, largely due to his criticism of former President Donald Trump, and has not ruled out running for the White House himself in 2024.
