{"id":422339,"date":"2021-06-25T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T02:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=422339"},"modified":"2021-06-25T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T03:53:37","slug":"bipartisan-senators-reach-tentative-framework-on-infrastructure-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bipartisan-senators-reach-tentative-framework-on-infrastructure-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan senators reach tentative framework on infrastructure deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan group of senators reached a tentative framework on an infrastructure deal Wednesday ahead of a crucial meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s top aides met with senators for back-to-back meetings on Capitol Hill and later huddled with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as the president reaches for a signature domestic achievement with his sweeping $4 trillion infrastructure plans. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re very excited about the prospect of a bipartisan agreement, Pelosi said.<\/p>\n<p>The group had been narrowing on a much smaller but still sizable USD 1 trillion proposal of road, highway and other traditional infrastructure projects. They have struggled over how to pay for an estimated USD 579 billion in new spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan group of senators reached a tentative framework on an infrastructure deal Wednesday ahead of a crucial meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House. Biden&#8217;s top aides met with senators for back-to-back meetings on Capitol Hill and later huddled with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as the president reaches for a signature domestic achievement with his sweeping $4 trillion infrastructure plans. We&#8217;re very excited about the prospect of a bipartisan agreement, Pelosi said. The group had been narrowing on a much smaller but still sizable USD 1 trillion proposal of road, highway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}