Schumer forges forward with infrastructure vote despite GOP resistance

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer set a 2:30 p.m. Wednesday procedural vote on the not-yet-completed bipartisan infrastructure package despite strong GOP pushback. 

The cloture vote is expected to be defeated, with top Republicans including Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), urging the New York Democrat to delay the vote to provide more time to iron out a number of outstanding details.  “We can’t support cloture for something we haven’t accomplished yet. We haven’t come to agreement on key issues,” he told reporters on Tuesday.