Senate clears a key infrastructure hurdle as it nears final vote
, followed by weeks of negotiation on Capitol Hill on the particulars.
The plan, which totals $550 billion in new spending, includes $110 billion in new funding for roads, bridges and surface transportation projects over the next five years. An additional $73 billion would go to upgrading the power infrastructure, $65 billion to expanding high-speed internet nationwide and $55 billion to expanding access to clean drinking water.
The infrastructure bill has many conservative detractors, including former President Trump, who during his administration never followed through on repeated promises for an infrastructure package. He encouraged Senate Republicans to reject the plan. “It is clear the ‘pay-fors’ in this package are either phony or insufficient, and this bill is full of K Street carve-outs, kickbacks and pork,” said Sen. Mike Braun , referring to lobbying firms that dot Washington’s K Street. “Republicans must not support the swamp’s bloated debt bomb parading as an infrastructure deal.”Sinema, said the official cost estimate doesn’t account for economic efficiency and productivity that the spending will produce.
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