{"id":976933,"date":"2021-11-06T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T18:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=976933"},"modified":"2021-11-06T14:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T18:13:47","slug":"finally-infrastructure-week-after-months-of-crises-biden-gets-a-win-with-gop-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/finally-infrastructure-week-after-months-of-crises-biden-gets-a-win-with-gop-help\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Finally \u2013 Infrastructure Week!\u2019: After Months Of Crises, Biden Gets A Win With GOP Help"},"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\">30<\/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%2Ffinally-infrastructure-week-after-months-of-crises-biden-gets-a-win-with-gop-help%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=976933&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><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden touted the passage of his bipartisan infrastructure bill Saturday after months of delays, describing it to the nation as \u201ca blue collar blueprint to rebuild America.\u201d<span id=\"subtitle443\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"443\" data-start=\"261175\" data-end=\"261676\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally \u2013 infrastructure week!\u201d Biden declared with a smile as he walked into the State Dining Room Saturday morning following a long evening of phone calls designed to push his party towards voting yes on the $1.2 trillion bill. \u201cI\u2019m so happy to say that. Infrastructure week.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/04\/bipartisan-infrastructure-package-kyrsten-sinema-joe-biden\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;A \u2018Historic Investment\u2019: Here\u2019s What\u2019s In The Bipartisan Infrastructure Package)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA once in a generation investment that\u2019s going to create millions of job, modernizing your infrastructure, roads, bridges, broadband \u2026 Turn the climate crisis into an opportunity. And it puts us on a path to win the economic competition of the 21st century,\u201d&nbsp;the president added.<\/p>\n<p>Less than one day earlier, the president\u2019s agenda <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/02\/pelosi-infrastructure-vote-pushed-end-of-october\/\">floated<\/a> on uncertain waters. Moderates refused to vote on the other portion of Biden\u2019s agenda \u2013 the larger social spending plan \u2013 without an official estimate of what the plan would cost. Members on the other side of the party dug their heels in, declaring they wouldn\u2019t vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill without a vote on the social spending plan.<\/p>\n<p>The back-and-forth battle between members of his own party was yet another crisis for the president, who had spent the summer dealing with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, a supply chain crisis, border problems, subpar approval ratings and more.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, fresh off a climate focused trip to Europe and with a recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/05\/us-adds-531000-jobs-october-inflation\/\">positive<\/a> jobs report, shifted gears, determined to get his <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/05\/democrats-plan-pass-spending-package-infrastructure-bill-collapses-amid-intraparty-disagreements\/\">agenda<\/a> passed. For weeks, he had spoken with Democrats about the passage of both bills but refrained from demands on when to vote. Friday morning, however, the president stood at the podium inside the White House and called on his party to vote on the spending bills \u201cright now.\u201d He told reporters he\u2019d be calling lawmakers after his remarks, and those calls ended up going until just before midnight on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi working lawmakers as well, a tentative option began to form as Friday dragged on: The House <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/05\/house-sends-infrastructure-bill-bidens-desk-after-11th-hour-agreement-between-liberals-moderates\/\">would vote<\/a> that night on the bipartisan infrastructure bill as well as vote on a rule for consideration of the Build Back Better Act. Still, it remained uncertain whether enough lawmakers would vote for the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who had planned to depart for Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, sometime Friday, pushed back his travel plans amid the drama. As the night dragged on, the White House said Biden had moved into the residence to continue making calls with Vice President Kamala Harris and his policy and legislative teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am urging all members to vote for both the rule for consideration of the Build Back Better Act and final passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure bill tonight,\u201d Biden said in a public statement around 9 p.m. on Friday evening, as his agenda remained in flux. \u201cI am confident that during the week of November 15, the House will pass the Build Back Better Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later Friday, after both factions of the Democratic party released statements, the House commenced a vote. Ultimately, 13 Republicans voted in favor of the bill\u2019s passage, allowing it to pass even as six Democrats \u2013 New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman, Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib \u2013 voted against it. Without Republican votes, the bill would have failed passage.<\/p>\n<p>Now it awaits Biden\u2019s signature, as it already passed the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/02\/senators-introduce-infrastructure-bill-kyrsten-sinema-rob-portman-chuck-schumer-mike-lee\/\">Senate<\/a> in August. Biden said he will have a formal signing ceremony for the bill \u201csoon,\u201d but plans to wait because he wants both Democrats and Republicans responsible for getting it passed to be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProgressive leaders, moderate leaders, Democrats, Republicans \u2013 they, in fact, worked together,\u201d Biden said Saturday, giving a quiet nod to the Republicans ultimately responsible for the bill\u2019s passage. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/chamber-of-commerce-industry-leaders-congress-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;Business, Industry Leaders Urge Congress To Pass Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The six Democrats voted against the bill despite an assurance earlier in the night from Progressive Caucus chair Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who had said in a statement that the group had \u201creached an agreement to advance both pieces\u201d of Biden\u2019s legislation. Jayapal, on behalf of the Progressive Caucus group, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USProgressives\/status\/1456812265588539395?s=20\">promised<\/a> that they\u2019d \u201cadvance the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the House rule on Build Back Better tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Biden was unable to fully unite his own party on his legislative agenda, the president used his remarks Saturday to focus on the positives. At one point, Biden admitted he is a \u201c<span id=\"subtitle585\" class=\"subtitle foundfragment selfragment\" data-id=\"585\" data-start=\"3837567\" data-end=\"3840190\">congenital optimist\u201d and described Friday\u2019s events as the country taking a \u201cmonumental step forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just getting started. We did something that\u2019s long overdue, that long has been talked about in Washington, but never actually been done,\u201d Biden said. \u201cThe House of Representatives passed an Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. That\u2019s a fancy way of saying a bipartisan infrastructure bill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden touted the passage of his bipartisan infrastructure bill Saturday after months of delays, describing it to the nation as \u201ca blue collar blueprint to rebuild America.\u201d\u201cFinally \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976933","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\/976933","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976933\/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=976933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}