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“#Senators push infrastructure bill a step closer to passage<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014 Senators hoisted the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package over another hurdle late Sunday, a coalition of Democrats and Republicans pushing it closer to passage despite a few holdouts trying to derail one of President Joe Biden\u2019s top priorities.<\/p>\n

The rare bipartisan momentum was holding steady, a reflection of the bill\u2019s popularity and the eagerness of senators to show voters back home they can deliver. One of the biggest investments of its kind in years, the package promises to unleash billions of dollars to upgrade roads, bridges, broadband internet, water pipes and other public works systems undergirding the nation.<\/p>\n

Senators easily overcame another 60-vote hurdle on a vote of 68-29. Final votes could drag into early Tuesday as a single GOP senator, Tennessee\u2019s Bill Hagerty, refused to relent on the mandatory debate time.<\/p>\n

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, stressed to colleagues that they could proceed the \u201ceasy way or the hard way,\u201d as the Senate slogged through its second consecutive weekend session.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll keep proceeding until we get this bill done,\u201d Schumer said.<\/p>\n

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act would provide what Biden has called a \u201chistoric investment\u201d in public works programs, the first part of the president\u2019s his rebuilding agenda. As many as 20 Republicans are expected to join Democrats in the evenly split Senate for what would be a robust final tally. If app<\/a>roved, it would go to the House.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re on the cusp of seeing that move through the Senate,\u201d Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on \u201cFox News<\/a> Sunday,\u201d citing \u201ca remarkable coalition\u201d that includes business, labor and lawmakers from both parties. \u201cI think we\u2019re about to get this done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once voting wraps up, senators immedia<\/a>tely will turn to the budget outline for\u00a0a $3.5 trillion package<\/a>\u00a0of child care, elder care and other programs that is a much more partisan undertaking and expected to draw only Democratic support.<\/p>\n

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Sen. Bill Hagerty (center) who was in favor of using the mandatory debate time for the infrastructure bill.<\/figcaption>
REUTERS\/Sarah Silbiger<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite the momentum, action ground to a halt over the weekend when Hagerty, an ally of Donald Trump, forced the Senate to run out the clock on debate time, refusing to consent to speeding up the process.<\/p>\n

Hagerty, who had been Trump\u2019s ambassador to Japan, was leading the effort to take as much time as needed to debate and amend the bipartisan bill, in part because he wants to slow the march toward Biden\u2019s next big bill, which plans $3.5 trillion for child care, an expansion of Medicare for seniors and other so-called soft infrastructure needs.<\/p>\n

Trump called Hagerty on Sunday morning, said a person familiar with the call who requested anonymity to discuss it. Hagerty said later Sunday in a speech on the Senate floor that he was trying to prevent a \u201csocialist debt bomb\u201d of new government spending.<\/p>\n

The former president has been publicly critical of the bipartisan bill and criticizing Biden and the senators from both parties who support it, though it\u2019s unclear whether Trump\u2019s broadsides will have much sway with Republican senators. He celebrated Hagerty\u2019s stand in a statement Sunday.<\/p>\n

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has so far allowed the bill to progress, despite the name-calling and criticism coming his way from Trump. \u201cThis is a compromise,\u201d McConnell said.<\/p>\n

As the weekend standoff dragged on, Republicans who helped negotiate the compromise spoke up Sunday commending the former president for having sparked infrastructure talks when he was in the White House even if those bills never panned out.<\/p>\n

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell referred to the bill as a \u201ccompromise.\u201d<\/figcaption>
REUTERS\/Elizabeth Frantz<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, the lead Republican negotiator, said it\u2019s time overdue to improve the nation\u2019s public works systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe American people deserve to have good roads and bridges and infrastructure to drive on, travel<\/a> on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Another negotiator, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, acknowledged that no compromise is perfect, but doing nothing when there was a bill before them was not an option.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery president in the modern era has proposed an infrastructure package,\u201d he said. \u201cThis was an effort to say let\u2019s break the logjam.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden, who was spending the weekend in Delaware, said the bipartisan package offers an investment on par with the building of the transcontinental railroad or interstate highway system.<\/p>\n

Senators have spent the past week processing nearly two dozen amendments to the 2,700-page package, but so far none has substantially changed its framework.<\/p>\n

More amendments have been offered as senators seek to revise a section on cryptocurrency, a long-shot effort by defense hawks to add $50 billion for defense-related infrastructure and a bipartisan amendment to repurpose a portion of the untapped COVID-19 relief aid that had been sent to the states. But it\u2019s unclear if they will be considered for votes.<\/p>\n

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Sen. Rob Portman, the lead GOP negotiator for the bill, arriving on Capitol on August 7, 2021.<\/figcaption>
AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Senators have found much to like in the bill, even though it does not fully satisfy liberals, who view it as too small, or conservatives, who find it too large. It would provide federal money for projects many states and cities could not afford on their own.<\/p>\n

An analysis of the bill from the Congressional Budget Office drew concerns, particularly from Republicans. It\u00a0concluded that the legislation would increase deficits by about $256 billion<\/a>\u00a0over the next decade.<\/p>\n

But the bill\u2019s backers argued that the budget office was unable to take into account certain revenue streams \u2014 including from future economic growth. Additional analysis released Saturday by the budget office suggested infrastructure spending overall could boost productivity and lower the ultimate costs.<\/p>\n

Paying for the package has been a pressure point throughout the months of negotiations after Democrats objected to an increase in the gas tax paid at the pump and Republicans resisted a plan to bolster the IRS to go after tax scofflaws.<\/p>\n

Unlike Biden\u2019s bigger $3.5 trillion package, which would be paid for by higher tax rates for corporations and the wealthy, the bipartisan package is funded by repurposing other money, including untapped COVID-19 aid, and other spending cuts and revenue streams.<\/p>\n

The House is in recess and is expected to consider both Biden infrastructure packages when it returns in September\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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