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President Joe Biden visited New Hampshire on Tuesday to talk about his $1.2 trillion investment in infrastructure. In his speech at the New Hampshire State Port Authority, Biden said that America is healthier than ever as it emerges from the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re the only country in the world that I believe …

On Friday, President Joe Biden visited Pittsburgh to tout the importance of his $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal just hours after a bridge in the city’s Frick Park collapsed. A Port Authority bus and multiple private vehicles were on it during the collapse. Pittsburgh officials said ten people were injured, but no …

The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that Congress passed last week – and that President Biden is expected to sign on Monday –  includes a provision that will require all new vehicles sold in the U.S. to come equipped with anti-drunk driving technology. The bill calls for all new vehicles to …

On Friday, Congress passed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, a signature part of President Joe Biden‘s economic agenda. The bill has $550 billion of new federal investments in everything from bridges, to roads, to broadband, to water. On Saturday, the president called it a “once-in-a-generation investment that’s gonna create …

The House of Representatives on Friday night passed a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill after months of delay and negotiations, sending the long-waited legislation to President Joe Biden for his signature. The bill was approved by a vote of 228-206, with 13 Republicans joining Democrats in support of the legislation. …

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden traveled to Michigan to stump for the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan and the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, also known as the Build Back Better Act. Biden told the Michigan audience that “we’re at an inflection point” and “we risk losing our edge as a nation” and …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote a letter to her colleagues on Sunday expressing that she is looking to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion budget resolution at the same time. In the letter to her Democratic colleagues on Sunday, Pelosi said that she asked the House Rules …

The Senate approved a sweeping $3.5 trillion budget spending plan early Wednesday that aims to fund many top Democratic priorities, including expanding Medicare, addressing climate change, and improving education. The chamber voted 50 to 49, along party lines, to pass the substantial budget framework that covers the bulk of President …

The Senate on Tuesday passed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure bill in a 69-30 vote. The Infrastructure Investment And Jobs Act puts $110 billion into roads, bridges, and other major projects, $66 billion into passenger and freight rail, $65 billion into broadband, $55 billion into water systems, and $39 billion into …

Senate Democrats unveiled their $3.5 trillion budget resolution for social and environmental programs. The measure will fund health care, education, environmental programs, and family services. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the budget resolution “will be the most significant legislation for American families since the era of the New Deal …

The Senate advanced a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package in a Wednesday evening procedural vote, a significant development for legislation brokered by both parties and the White House as they seek to clinch a rare bipartisan victory on Capitol Hill. In a 67-32 vote on the motion to proceed, …

Senate Democrats announced Tuesday night that they have reached an agreement on a $3.5 trillion budget plan, including plans to address climate change and the expansion of Medicare, that they plan to push alongside a bipartisan infrastructure deal. Here is @SenSchumer making the announcement. He points out that with this …

On Tuesday, members of the House Problem Solvers Caucus announced their support of the nearly $1 trillion infrastructure deal proposed last month by a bipartisan group of senators.  The group is calling for “an expeditious, stand-alone vote in the House.” “The bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus strongly supports the Senate infrastructure framework,” …

President Joe Biden promoted the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. “After months of careful negotiation of listening, compromising together and in good faith, moving together with ups and downs and some blips, a bipartisan group of senators got together and they forged an agreement …

President Biden announced on Thursday that the White House and a group of bipartisan senators had reached a deal on a $1 trillion infrastructure plan. “We have a deal,” the President said. “We made serious compromises on both ends.” “We have to move and we have to move fast, and …