The 1 Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Bill Advances.
The Senate cleared a key hurdle on the way to passing Biden’s infrastructure bill. (NY Times)
The Senate voted on Wednesday to take up a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure deal, as Republicans joined Democrats to pave the way for action on a crucial piece of President Biden’s agenda.
The 67-to-32 vote, which included the support of 17 Republicans, came just hours after senators in both parties and the White House reached a long-sought compromise on the bill, which would provide about $550 billion in new federal money for roads, bridges, rail lines, transit projects, water systems and other physical infrastructure programs.
America’s roads, bridges and sewer lines are crumbling and in desperate need of immediate repair. Instead of ensuring billionaires have enough money to fly to outer space, America needs to tax billionaires to help fund the road and bridge repairs that help make them billionaires in the first place. But I digress, now is the time to pass this trillion dollar funding bill to really make America again.
