Senator Charles Grassley says there is a lot of bipartisan agreement in some areas of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package coined the American Jobs Plan, but there are other sections he feels doesn’t fit the bill.

Grassley tells KCII he is in favor of the $621 billion proposed for transportation infrastructure, and there could also be Republican support for investments in broadband infrastructure, ports, waterways, and airports, but he feels there are other aspects of the approximately $2.25 trillion bill that don’t belong, “$400 billion is to expand Medicaid, that’s not infrastructure and there’s a lot of other stuff like that to make up the other $1.2 trillion, so that’s what makes it difficult to get agreement by Republicans on. So if the President would sort out the things that are really infrastructure and move ahead with that, then I think that we could get a bipartisan agreement and get some good infrastructure stuff passed.”

The funds allocated for Medicaid would expand access to home and community-based services, extend the Money Follows the Person program, and add an infrastructure to support well-paying caregiving jobs that include benefits and the ability to collectively bargain. Senate Republicans unveiled a $568 billion infrastructure counterproposal last week, which is about a quarter of the size of the Biden administration’s package, though it is larger than the five-year $305 billion bill signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2015.