US Senate pushes ahead with $1 trillion infrastructure bill

The largest US infrastructure investment in decades, the bill’s passage would be a key victory for President Joe Biden.

The United States Senate will try to complete work this week on a $1-trillion infrastructure investment bill that would bring long-awaited improvements to roads, bridges and mass-transit systems and deliver a rare bipartisan victory to President Joe Biden. Following long sessions on Saturday and Sunday, Senate negotiators announced they had finished drafting a 2,702-page bill, which was introduced promptly, clearing the way for senators to debate amendments. “It has been decades – decades – since Congress passed such a significant, stand-alone investment,” a buoyant Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor.