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US Congress passes $1 trillion infrastructure bill

November 9, 2021
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After a daylong standoff, Democrats set aside divisions between progressives and centrists to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, a package of highway, broadband and other infrastructure improvements, sending it to US President Joe Biden to sign into law.

The 228 to 206 vote is a substantial triumph for Biden’s Democrats, who have bickered for months over the ambitious spending bills that make up the bulk of his domestic agenda.

iden’s administration will now oversee the biggest upgrade of America’s roads, railways and other transportation infrastructure in a generation, which he has promised will create jobs and boost US competitiveness.

Biden on Saturday hailed Congress’ passage of his infrastructure package as a “monumental step forward for the nation”.

“Finally, infrastructure week,” Biden told reporters. “I’m so happy to say that: infrastructure week.”

“This is a blue collar blueprint to rebuilding America,” he said in his White House remarks.

The phrase “infrastructure week” had become a Washington punchline during his predecessor Donald Trump’s four years in the White House, when plans to focus on those investments were repeatedly derailed by scandals and political wranglings.

“Generations from now, people will look back and know this is when America won the economic competition for the 21st Century,” Biden said in a written statement early Saturday.

Democrats still have much work to do on the second pillar of Biden’s domestic programme: a sweeping expansion of the social safety net and programmes to fight climate change.

At a price tag of $1.75 trillion, that package would be the biggest expansion of the US safety net since the 1960s, but the party has struggled to unite behind it.

Democratic leaders had hoped to pass both bills out of the House on Friday, but postponed action after centrists demanded a nonpartisan accounting of its costs – a process that could take weeks.

After hours of closed-door meetings, a group of centrists promised to vote for the bill by November 20 – as long as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that its costs lined up with White House estimates.

The House planned a procedural vote on that package later on Friday.

“Welcome to my world. This is the Democratic Party,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters earlier in the day. “We are not a lockstep party.”

The standoff came just days after Democrats suffered losses in closely watched state elections, raising concerns that they may lose control of Congress next year.

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