WASHINGTON: After a daylong standoff, Democrats set aside divisions between progressives and centrists to pass a US$1 trillion package of highway, broadband and other infrastructure improvement, sen
, Democrats set aside divisions between progressives and centrists to pass a US$1 trillion package of highway, broadband and other infrastructure improvement, sending it on to President Joe Biden to sign into law.
Democrats still have much work to do on the second pillar of Biden's domestic program: A sweeping expansion of the social safety net and programs 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.
"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 infrastructure Bill passed with the support of 13 Republicans, fulfilling Biden's promise of passing some bipartisan legislation. 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.
The infrastructure Bill, which passed the Senate in August with 19 Republican votes, would fund a massive upgrade of America's roads, bridges, airports, seaports and rail systems, while also expanding broadband internet service.includes provisions on child care and preschool, eldercare, healthcare, prescription drug pricing and immigration.
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