House passes $1 trillion infrastructure package
by Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times
Nov 05, 2021
3 minutes
WASHINGTON — The House passed an historic $1-trillion infrastructure package Friday night and planned to vote to start formal debate on their larger social spending and climate bill, a show of progress on President Joe Biden’s agenda after months of division between centrists and progressives.
A planned final vote on the larger social spending bill was scuttled because a group of moderates — enough to block the measure — refused to support it until they had an official estimate of its economic cost.
The successful vote on the infrastructure bill, which was approved 228 to
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