WH on instrasture plan, MLB All Star decision

The White House faced questioned Monday on the battle over President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan and also the president's view on Major League Baseball's decision to pull the All Star game out of Atlanta after the state push through new voting laws.

Biden’s ambitious “ Rebuild America” agenda has a price tag of $2.3 trillion, plans to help roads, bridges and other infrastructure investments.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell declared plainly on Monday that Biden's plan is “something we’re not going to do.”

But it’s not at all certain the GOP playbook that worked more than a decade ago will produce the same political gains this time around. Voters appear tired of the partisan stalemate in Washington.

Many live in the country's run-down areas and are signaling they are initially supportive of Biden’s approach to governing, at least on the virus aid package.

THe MLB decision to move the All Star game, comes as the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola have also condemned as being too restrictive.

The decision to pull the July 13 game from Atlanta's Truist Park amounts to the first economic backlash against Georgia for the voting law that Republican Gov. Brian Kemp quickly signed into law March 25.

Kemp has insisted the law's critics have mischaracterized what it does, yet GOP lawmakers adopted the changes largely in response to false claims of fraud in the 2020 elections by former President Donald Trump and his supporters.

The law includes new restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative control over how elections are run.