Senate Democrat warns U.S. infrastructure talks hitting ‘brick wall’

Negotiations between President Joe Biden and a Republican senator over U.S. infrastructure investments appeared to have sputtered, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday, adding that other avenues for enacting legislation remained.

Senator Shelley Moore Capito, the leader of a group of six Senate Republicans handling the negotiations, had a five-minute call with the Democratic president on Tuesday, a Capito spokesperson said.

Referring to the discussions, Schumer, a Democrat, said, they “seem to be running into a brick wall.”

Meanwhile, Biden was broadening his search for a deal…