Bipartisan infrastructure deal but key Republicans are not on board

The bill will invest a total of $ 579 billion in infrastructure – including some $312 billion in transport.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s appeared to be closer to fruition as a bipartisan group of Senators , on Thursday, reached an agreement that would cost $1.2 trillion over eight years, including more than half a trillion dollars in transport and infrastructure spending. Mr Biden has asked the U.S. Congress for about $ 4 trillion in infrastructure and social spending in the American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan. Thursday’s agreement, which covers only a fraction of the $ 4 trillion, is tied to – according to the President and several top Democrats – budget resolutions being passed to cover the social spending priorities. This could put the bill in jeopardy as key Republicans have expressed opposition to the linking. “We have a deal,” Mr. Biden told reporters outside the White House on Thursday, as he stood with a bipartisan group of ten Senators behind him.