Roads, transit, internet: What’s in the infrastructure bill

The White House is projecting that the investments will add, on average, about 2 million jobs per year over the coming decade

The House has passed a $1 trillion bipartisan plan to rebuild roads and bridges, modernise public works systems and boost broadband internet, among other major improvements to the nation’s infrastructure. The legislation now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature.

Once it is signed by Mr. Biden, the new law will reach virtually every corner of the country — a historic investment that the President has compared with the building of the transcontinental railroad and Interstate Highway System. The White House is projecting that the investments will add, on average, about 2 million jobs per year over the coming decade.

The bill cleared the House late on Friday on a 228-206 vote, ending weeks of intraparty negotiations in which liberal Democrats insisted the legislation be tied to a larger, $1.75 trillion social spending bill — an effort to pressure more moderate Democrats to support both.