{"id":448395,"date":"2021-11-08T11:54:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T06:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448395"},"modified":"2021-11-08T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T07:10:09","slug":"us-congress-okays-1-trillion-infrastructure-bill-a-long-delayed-win-for-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-congress-okays-1-trillion-infrastructure-bill-a-long-delayed-win-for-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congress okays $1 trillion infrastructure bill, a long-delayed win for Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: The House approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates, notching a victory that President Joe Biden and his party had become increasingly anxious to claim. <\/p>\n<p>The House passed the measure 228-206 late Friday, prompting prolonged cheers from the relieved Democratic side of the chamber. Thirteen Republicans, mostly moderates, supported the legislation while six of Democrats\u2019 farthest left members \u2014 including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri \u2014 opposed it. <\/p>\n<p>Approval of the bill, which would create legions of jobs and improve broadband, water supplies and other public works, whisked it to the desk of a president whose approval ratings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: The House approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates, notching a victory that President Joe Biden and his party had become increasingly anxious to claim. The House passed the measure 228-206 late Friday, prompting prolonged cheers from the relieved Democratic side of the chamber. Thirteen Republicans, mostly moderates, supported the legislation while six of Democrats\u2019 farthest left members \u2014 including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri \u2014 opposed it. Approval of the bill, which would create legions of jobs and [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448395","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=448395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}