Washington (CNN) A Republican senator who's helping to negotiate a bipartisan infrastructure proposal said Sunday that the group is no longer looking at toughening enforcement at the Internal Revenue Service as a way to pay for the massive bill. "Well, one reason it's not part of the proposal is that we did have pushback. Another reason is that we found out that the Democrats were going to put a proposal into the reconciliation package, which was not just similar to the one we had, but with a lot more IRS enforcement," Sen. Rob Portman told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" when asked about Republican opposition to the idea. A Democratic aide confirmed to CNN on Sunday that Republicans and Democrats in the bipartisan group have agreed to scrap the enhanced IRS enforcement provision after conservatives pushed back it, endangering the group's ability to get a deal ahead of a procedural vote scheduled for Wednesday to advance the legislation.

Source: CNN July 18, 2021 14:33 UTC