{"id":430102,"date":"2021-08-11T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T04:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=430102"},"modified":"2021-08-11T12:20:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T06:50:25","slug":"us-senate-passes-bidens-1-trillion-infrastructure-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-senate-passes-bidens-1-trillion-infrastructure-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate passes Biden&#8217;s $1 trillion infrastructure bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A $1 trillion infrastructure package that is a top priority for U.S. President Joe Biden secured enough votes to pass in the Senate on Tuesday, a bipartisan victory for the White House as it aims to provide the nation&#8217;s biggest investment in decades in roads, bridges, airports and waterways. <\/p>\n<p>Voting was continuing in the 100-seat chamber after the measure secured the 50 votes needed for passage.<\/p>\n<p>Polls show that the drive to upgrade America&#8217;s infrastructure, hammered out by a bipartisan group of senators over months of negotiations, is broadly popular with the public.<\/p>\n<p>The bill still has to go to the House of Representatives and the spirit of cooperation in Congress that led to its passage on Tuesday will likely prove fleeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $1 trillion infrastructure package that is a top priority for U.S. President Joe Biden secured enough votes to pass in the Senate on Tuesday, a bipartisan victory for the White House as it aims to provide the nation&#8217;s biggest investment in decades in roads, bridges, airports and waterways. Voting was continuing in the 100-seat chamber after the measure secured the 50 votes needed for passage. Polls show that the drive to upgrade America&#8217;s infrastructure, hammered out by a bipartisan group of senators over months of negotiations, is broadly popular with the public. The bill still has to go to [&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":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430102","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=430102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}