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By Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Ben Kamisar October 21, 2021
WASHINGTON — More than 70 days ago, the U.S. Senate handed President Biden his biggest bipartisan victory yet — an infrastructure bill providing $550 billion in new spending, and $1 trillion overall, for highways, transit, water and broadband. “This historic investment in infrastructure is what I believe you, the American people, want — what you’ve been asking for for a long, long time. This bill shows that we can work together,” Biden said on Aug. 10. But since then, the bill has languished in the House, as progressives demanded that it not become law before the more expensive, and far more partisan, human infrastructure bill — for child care, universal pre-K, health care and climate spending.
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