by Susan Ferrechio, Chief Congressional Correspondent | | July 27, 2021 04:28 PM
Senate Democrats are refusing to give up on a bipartisan infrastructure deal that has repeatedly teetered on the brink of collapse and has already been blocked once by Republicans.
“We’re getting close,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters Tuesday afternoon, a day after lawmakers had planned to announce a deal on the $1.2 trillion package.
Schumer has little choice but to keep the talks open after months of negotiations between the two parties and President Joe Biden.
The party’s centrist faction has signaled that it wants a bipartisan accord on funding the nation’s infrastructure projects to pass before Senate Democrats unilaterally consider a much larger package of social spending programs that comes with a staggering $3.5 trillion price tag and is paid for with tax increases.
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