US lawmakers approve $1tn in infrastructure spending – BBC Information
The US Congress has handed a landmark $1tn (£741bn) infrastructure spending bundle, delivering a serious home win to President Joe Biden.
Negotiations over the sweeping public works invoice – which handed the Home of Representatives with 228-206 vote – created a bitter cut up amongst Democrats.
In the meantime the Home is shifting ahead with a extra bold social spending invoice favoured by liberal lawmakers.
The infrastructure bundle now heads to Mr Biden’s desk to be signed into legislation.
Billed as a “once-in-a-generation” spending measure, the infrastructure laws proposes $550bn in new federal expenditure, over the following eight years, to improve highways, roads and bridges, and to modernise metropolis transit methods and passenger rail networks.
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