Breaking: The Congressional Budget Office found that the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure bill would raise deficit $256B over 10 years
The Senate is racing to finish work on its bipartisan infrastructure bill, with some members of both parties pushing for a final vote as soon as Thursday evening.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that "we still have amendments that need to be processed. Once they are we’ll be able to wind things down." Many Republicans had been waiting for the Congressional Budget Office score, which dropped on Thursday afternoon. That score showed that the bill's mix of $550 billion in new spending and the financing to pay for it would increase deficits by $256 billion over 10 years.
Failing that agreement, Schumer may put things in motion Thursday after the Senate considers more amendments to the bill, though no final decision has been made. That would set up a Saturday vote to overcome a filibuster, when the bill would need the support of at least 10 GOP senators. “Today we will consider even more amendments. And then hopefully we can bring this bill to a close very shortly,” Schumer said. “Our goal is to pass both a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a budget resolution during this work period, and we will stay here to get both done.”
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