The House passed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes transport, broadband and utility funding, sending it to President Biden
The House passed a more than $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, sending it to President Joe Biden for his signature.The bill passed after a last-minute scramble to reach a consensus between progressive and centrists on how to pass the infrastructure package and a larger Democratic social spending plan.
in August. The legislation's passage is perhaps the unified Democratic government's most concrete achievement since it approved a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package in the spring. Washington has tried and failed for years to pass a major bill to upgrade critical transportation and utility infrastructure, which has come under more pressure from extreme weather. The White House has also contended passage of the bill can help to get goods moving as supply-chain obstacles contribute to higher prices for American consumers.
Democrats entered the day planning to pass both the infrastructure legislation and the party's larger $1.75 trillion social safety net and climate package. A demand from a handful of centrists to see a Congressional Budget Office estimate of the social spending plan's budgetary effects delayed its approval. Progressives sought assurances the holdouts would support the bigger proposal if they voted for the infrastructure bill.
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