{"id":605795,"date":"2021-07-29T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=605795"},"modified":"2021-07-29T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:23:04","slug":"senate-advances-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-advances-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate advances bipartisan infrastructure deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-advances-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=605795&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2474263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2474263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., right, are seated together during a luncheon with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 28, 2021. Senate Republicans have reached a deal with Democrats over major outstanding issues in a $1 trillion infrastructure bill and say they are ready to vote to take up the bill. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 8:13 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, July 29, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Senate passed a procedural vote to advance a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. In a 67-to-32 vote Wednesday, the Senate reached bipartisan support to move forward on the bill after weeks of no progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate has just come together and, in a strong bipartisan fashion, voted to begin the legislative process here on the Senate floor,\u201d stated Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).<\/p>\n<p>With late GOP support coming after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced he would show his support, 17 Republicans voted \u2018yes\u2019 to proceed with debates on the bill\u2019s specific details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done something on a bipartisan basis; it\u2019s the way Washington should work,\u201d stated Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah). \u201cIt\u2019s the way America expects us to work and I\u2019m confident that we will be able to get it across the finish line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s still a lot of work to be done until the bill reaches a final vote, lawmakers within both political parties are confident a deal will be reached in the near future. That\u2019s according to the GOP\u2019s lead negotiator, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reached agreement as I said on the major issues, so we still have legislative language and finalize,\u201d said Portman. \u201cWe look forward to moving ahead and having the opportunity to have a healthy debate here in the chamber, regarding incredibly important projects that the American people would like to have my colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of now, the deal includes funding for the nation\u2019s roads, bridges, public transportation, electric buses and clean drinking water among other items.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Joe Biden wrote:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis deal signals to the world that our democracy can function, deliver and do big things. As we did with the transcontinental railroad and the interstate highway, we will, once again, transform America and propel us into the future.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, some Republicans are still hesitant to show their support while arguing that until the bill is actually written and they have an opportunity to review its details, they will not vote for it. The 45th president has also been a heavy critic of the deal. He recently blasted the 17 Republican senators who voted in favor of the infrastructure bargain.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\/news-cmuankxgdh0\">statement<\/a> released Wednesday, Donald Trump blamed the GOP lawmakers for negotiating a deal with \u201cradical left Democrats.\u201d He said the move makes the Republicans look \u201cweak, foolish and dumb.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW!<\/p>\n<p>President Trump warns GOP NOT to accept &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; bill negotiated by RINOs! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kM5ZYxseGC\">pic.twitter.com\/kM5ZYxseGC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realLizUSA\/status\/1420501942787362817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 45th president went on to say the so-called bipartisan bill will be \u201ccontinued destruction for our country.\u201d He then warned the Republicans who cooperated with the left that they will be facing lots of primary challenges in the near future.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/biden-spends-1-8b-to-not-build-the-border-wall\/\">Biden Spends $1.8B To Not Build The Border Wall<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., right, are seated together during a luncheon with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, at the Capitol &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}