Senate Approves Infrastructure Bill In 69-30 Vote

The New York Times reports:

The Senate gave overwhelming bipartisan approval to a $1 trillion infrastructure bill on Tuesday to rebuild the nation’s deteriorating roads and bridges and fund new climate resilience and broadband initiatives, delivering a key component of President Biden’s agenda.

The vote, 69-30, was uncommonly bipartisan; the yes votes included Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader, and 18 other Republicans who shrugged off increasingly shrill efforts by former President Donald Trump to derail it.

But the measure now faces a potentially rocky and time-consuming path in the House, where the speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the nearly 100-member Progressive Caucus, have said they will not vote on it unless and until the Senate passes a separate, even more ambitious $3.5 trillion social policy bill this fall.

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69-30: Senate passes $1.2T bipartisan infrastructure bill, includes $550 billion over five years in new funding for roads, bridges, public transit, rails, water projects, airports and broadband internet. Vice President Harris announced the final vote. Bill now heads to House. pic.twitter.com/zfRDQHoUvu

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