The White House and Democrats will have to go it alone on developing an infrastructure deal as discussions between President Joe Biden and the GOP’s chief Senate negotiator, West Virginia Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito, have broken off with no progress likely, ABC News reports.

Hitting the media circuit first, Capito put the blame on the Administration.  “We had a robust package that we could’ve made work and I think I could’ve gotten 20-25 Rs to go with me,” Capito told ABC News Tuesday afternoon. “They moved the goal posts on me a couple of times and they just decided to walk away.”

Biden had made significant concessions on the amount committed to infrastructure projects.  Initially, the price tag was $2.3 trillion, but he White House soon lowered its proposal to $1.7 trillion.  Republicans in the Senate countered with a $600 billion proposal that many Democrats decried as an unserious offer.

Biden’s infrastructure plan included traditional infrastructure programs like roads and bridges, but also included plans to upgrade the power grid and provide broadband internet to people across the nation.  The White House plan expanded funded for “human infrastructure” like child care and job training, taking a page from more modern academic understanding of the underpinnings on what economic infrastructure means.

One of the reliable features of the Trump administration was its reliance on bringing up infrastructure programs whenever it needed to change White House talking points due to a policy failure or scandal.  The term “Infrastructure Week” became synonymous with inaction, given the Trump administration didn’t put together a comprehensive infrastructure plan during its four year term.