The legislation includes $550 billion in new federal spending aimed at modernizing the nation's roads, bridges, airports, waterways and more.
voted Tuesday to approve a historic $1.2 trillion bill designed to upgrade the nation’s aging infrastructure system by repairing and constructing new roads, bridges, airports, waterways and more.
The legislation also includes $15 billion aimed at replacing the nation’s lead pipes and service lines, a big part of Biden’s pledge to aid overlooked and marginalized communities. But the bill’s authors countered that CBO’s analysis neglected other savings included in the bill, such as roughly $200 billion previously allocated to address the COVID-19 pandemic and unspent unemployment insurance funds. The provisions, Sen. Mitt Romney argued, “don’t score under [CBO’s] rules, but they are real dollars.”House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has vowed not to allow a vote on the bipartisan legislation without the Senate first approving a $3.
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