{"id":429816,"date":"2021-08-09T10:54:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T05:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429816"},"modified":"2021-08-09T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T07:53:21","slug":"huge-infrastructure-bill-backed-by-biden-passes-key-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/huge-infrastructure-bill-backed-by-biden-passes-key-hurdle\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge infrastructure bill backed by Biden passes key hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A huge infrastructure bill deemed historic by US President Joe Biden passed a key procedural hurdle on Saturday, with enough Republican senators joining Democrats to make its final passage in the upper chamber appear nearly certain. <\/p>\n<p>The $1.2 trillion bill, designed to fund much-needed upgrades to US roads, highways, bridges and high-speed internet, drew the support of 18 Republican senators and 49 Democrats- a rare instance of bipartisanship in deeply divided Washington. <\/p>\n<p>That Republican support- with the party&#8217;s Senate leader Mitch McConnell among the 18 in favor- will end floor debate on the bill, a procedural step that required 60 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: A huge infrastructure bill deemed historic by US President Joe Biden passed a key procedural hurdle on Saturday, with enough Republican senators joining Democrats to make its final passage in the upper chamber appear nearly certain. The $1.2 trillion bill, designed to fund much-needed upgrades to US roads, highways, bridges and high-speed internet, drew the support of 18 Republican senators and 49 Democrats- a rare instance of bipartisanship in deeply divided Washington. That Republican support- with the party&#8217;s Senate leader Mitch McConnell among the 18 in favor- will end floor debate on the bill, a procedural step that required [&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":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429816","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=429816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}