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The bipartisan infrastructure bill passed the Senate in a 69-30 vote on Aug. 10, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell among the 19 Republicans who joined with the chamber’s 50 Democrats to support the long-awaited measure.
But the bill still hasn’t become law, as it needs to pass the House of Representatives and get signed by President Joe Biden, who announced a bipartisan deal on infrastructure
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Sept. 27 is the next key date for the bill, known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. That’s the date by when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat, has promised a vote on the measure.
But there’s “always a possibility that the vote would get delayed,” said the No. 3 House Democrat, Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, in a CNN interview on Sunday. While Clyburn talked about a potential delay, he also said said lawmakers will “work to get to our goal for Sept. 27.”
Pelosi made her promise in late August to a group of moderate House Democrats to get their support for a procedural vote for a separate spending measure, the party’s $3.5 trillion plan targeting “human infrastructure,” climate change and other Democratic priorities. She also faces pressure from progressive Democrats who say they won’t support the bipartisan infrastructure bill unless the $3.5 trillion package moves ahead as well.
As Pelosi and other Democratic leaders work on advancing the infrastructure bill and the larger package, below is a visual breakdown for the first measure. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has an overall price tag of about $1 trillion, with around $550 billion in new public-works spending above what already was expected in future federal investments.
How does it all get paid for? Below is a visual breakdown of the funding sources for the infrastructure bill.
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