President Joe Biden is hailing Congress’ passage of his $1 trillion infrastructure package as a 'monumental step forward for the nation.'
Biden’s infrastructure plan passed late Friday in a bipartisan House vote, but Democratic negotiations continued to delay his social spending and climate bill.His reference to infrastructure week was a jab at his predecessor, Donald Trump, whose White House declared several times that “infrastructure week” had arrived, only for nothing to happen.
“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. “This was not to bribe me, this is when it was all done,” Jayapal told reporters. The lawmaker said her mother told her she “just kept screaming like a little girl.”
The day marked a rare detente between Democrats’ moderate and progressive wings that party leaders hope will continue this fall. The rival factions have spent recent weeks accusing each other of jeopardizing Biden’s and the party’s success by overplaying their hands and expressed a deep distrust of each other.“Let me tell you, we’re going to trust each other because the Democratic Party is together on this,” she said. “We are united that it is important for us to get both bills done.
Democrats have struggled for months to take advantage of their control of the White House and Congress by advancing their top priorities. That’s been hard, in part because of Democrats’ slender majorities, with bitter internal divisions forcing House leaders to miss several self-imposed deadlines for votes.Liberals had long demanded that the two massive bills be voted on together to pressure moderates to support the larger, more expansive social measure.
The infrastructure measure cleared the Senate in August with bipartisan support. The package would provide huge sums for highway, mass transit, broadband, airport, drinking and waste water, power grids and other projects.
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