In the United States, a victory for Joe Biden after the adoption in the Senate of the infrastructure plan

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US senators bipartisanly passed legislation on Tuesday to invest some $ 1 trillion in the country’s aging infrastructure. A victory for Democratic President Joe Biden, who however had to reduce the scope of his departure plan. The House of Representatives must now validate the text.

The US Senate on Tuesday August 10 adopted a 1 trillion dollars (852 billion euros) infrastructure plan to renovate roads, bridges and airports in particular, one of the priorities of President Joe Biden, offering the Democratic tenant to the White House a major bipartisan victory.

The text, adopted by 69 votes to 30, will now be sent to the House of Representatives, with the prospect of the largest investment in infrastructure in the United States in decades. Nineteen Republican senators voted in favor of the bill.

Senate Democrats are now pushing for a separate $ 3.5 trillion budget package, a bill the Democratic camp plans to pass in Congress by sidestepping Republicans’ objection.

Thus, after months of negotiations between groups of Democratic and Republican senators, the spirit of collaboration that has reigned in Congress on the infrastructure plan should be ephemeral, while this project is very popular with Americans according to surveys by opinion.

“Better rebuild”

“Great news, friends: the bipartite agreement on infrastructure has been officially adopted in the Senate,” Joe Biden reacted via Twitter. “I hope Congress will send it to my office as soon as possible so that we can continue our work of rebuilding better.”


Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democratic Senate majority, intends to pass a resolution prior to a $ 3.5 trillion budget package to invest in health care, the fight against climate change and other priorities of Joe Biden. This budget package could be voted on by the Senate in September, after the summer break for parliamentary work.

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly warned that she will put both bills to a vote simultaneously, if not none, heralding months of work before the bill passed by the Senate on Tuesday is submitted to Joe. Biden for enactment. It is possible that the Senate will begin, as of this Tuesday evening, debates on the budget expenditure plan of 3,500 billion.

“Radical” budget package

Mitch McConnell, leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, has let it be known that he and his peers will try to convince moderate Democrats to vote against what he calls a “radical” budget package that can lead to the most. significant tax hike in the United States.

The infrastructure bill, which has 2,702 pages, provides, among other things, for $ 550 billion in new spending in modernizing the country’s road network, bridges, railways and even Internet networks.

According to documents published on Monday, the massive 3,500 billion plan provides for, among other things, new credits for health, tax assistance for the industrial sector, a reduction in tuition fees or measures likely to allow the regularization of several million immigrant workers.

With Reuters

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