President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed Congress’ passage of his $1 trillion infrastructure package as a “monumental step forward for the nation” after fractious fellow Democrats resolved a months-long standoff in their ranks to finally seal the deal.
“Finally, infrastructure week,” a beaming Biden told reporters. “I’m so happy to say that: infrastructure week.”
The House passed the measure 228-206 late Friday, prompting prolonged cheers from the relieved Democratic side of the chamber. Thirteen Republicans, mostly moderates, supported the legislation while six of Democrats’ farthest left members — including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri — opposed it.
Approval of the bill, which promises to create legions of jobs and improve broadband, water supplies and other public works, sends it to the desk of a president whose approval ratings have dropped and whose nervous party got a cold shoulder from voters in this past week’s off-year elections.
Democratic candidates for governor were defeated in Virginia and squeaked through in New Jersey, two blue-leaning states. Those setbacks made party leaders — and moderates and liberals alike — impatient to produce impactful legislation and demonstrate they know how to govern. Democrats can ill afford to seem in disarray a year before midterm elections that could result in Republicans regaining congressional control.
The infrastructure package is a historic investment by any measure, one that Biden compares in its breadth to the building of the interstate highway system in the last century or the transcontinental railroad the century before.
“This is a blue collar blueprint to rebuilding America,” he said in his White House remarks.
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‘Monumental Step Forward’
It is. It is only a small fraction of what we need to spend to repair, rebuild, and expand physical infrastructure, but it is a start.
At least you are consistent, with your sheer stupidity!
This will not have any positive effect on democrats winning next year. Adaraba, the voters will see how ridiculous this package is and throw out those who voted for it. And that includes Republican backstabbers like the Rino phony Nicole Malliotakis from Staten Island. Her attacks on fellow Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene should of been enough to throw this privileged WHITE female out of Congress.