The U.S. Senate majority leader pressed lawmakers on Thursday to make progress on President Joe Biden's agenda, setting up a vote on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and demanding Democrats back a larger $3.5 trillion budget blueprint.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, told the Senate the bipartisan infrastructure bill would face an initial procedural floor vote on Wednesday, in an apparent effort to jump-start the process.
Sixty votes will be needed to advance the measure, which means at least 10 Republicans have to join all the Democrats in backing the legislation in the Senate, which is divided 50-50 along party lines. Schumer dismissed such concerns. "There is no reason why we can't start voting next Wednesday. That's what we're going to do," he told reporters.
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