Republican Senator Joni Ernst says President Biden’s more than two-trillion dollar infrastructure plan is too bloated to get G-O-P support.

Ernst says the plan contains every progressive wish list item under the sun, like support for electric vehicles and labor unions. Other elements in the plan can be debated separately, according to Ernst.

Ernst suggests a starting point for Biden Administration negotiations with congress could have been the bill that unanimously passed the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee last year.

She says last year’s bipartisan highway bill included crucial funding to repair and replace the lock and dam system on the Mississippi River.