Senate enters final lap on bipartisan infrastructure deal

The Senate advanced the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Saturday afternoon, breaking a filibuster to end debate on the deal crafted by a group of 10 senators alongside President Joe Biden.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said his party wanted to hold amendment votes but was waiting for Republicans to reveal a path toward more votes and final passage. Still, the infrastructure bill appeared on a glide path to clearing the Senate, which would hand a win for Biden and the cross-party group of 10 senators who negotiated the bill.

"It helps all the states and all the cities and local jurisdictions that would like to have flexibility to spend excess Covid funds on infrastructure," Cornyn said. Schumer reiterated his vows Saturday that the Senate will not leave for the August recess until it passes the bill, along with Democrats’ budget blueprint for a $3.5 trillion social spending package.

But many Senate Republicans have criticized the bill's financing and questioned the purpose of the agreement, knowing that Democrats are planning to move forward on a second partisan package either way. They have been egged on by former President Donald Trump, who has vocally opposed the bill and said Saturday it “will be very hard for me to endorse anyone foolish enough to vote in favor of this deal.

This is just more evidence that if we stopped letting senators hide behind the filibuster then we would have even more bipartisan bills.

Dam shameful

📹 شـاهـد : نسب العجز الكارثية عند مقارنة الكميات المفرج عنها خلال الفترة (يناير-يونيو) من كلا العامين 2021-2020م بإجمالي الاحتياج الفعلي من مادتي البنزين والديزل خلال نفس الفترة.

شاهد تقرير قناة CNN : عن سفن الوقود المفرج عنها نهاية شهر مارس 2021م ، وتصريح المدير العام التنفيذي لشركة النفط اليمنية المهندس/ عمار صالح الأضرعي للقناة. OSE_Yemen UNReliefChief hrw_ar UNarabic nimaelbagir JoeBiden المقطع الاول

Yemen Petroleum Company reiterates its assertion that the US-Saudi aggression coalition is still holding 4 fuel ships that are loaded with a total of '77,307' tons of fuel, for varying periods that reached eight months months for one of the ships

The UN permits granted to fuel ships headed to Yemen have become no more than ink on paper. Looks like the US doesn't give a shit for those permits nor for the humanitarian situation in Yemen USADetainsOilShips4 YemenCantWait

How can hospital ambulances transport patients with no fuel to move?! It clearly seems that the US doesn't care about how this pains the ill, the elderly, the women, and children of Yemen! USADetainsOilShips4 YemenCantWait

Trump: “ It will be very hard for me to endorse anyone foolish enough to vote in favor of this deal.' Wooooo, should Sens. John Cornyn and Deb Fischer be sHaKiNg In ThEiR bOoTs?

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