Joe Biden’s bipartisan dream lives on, for now
The Senate crafts a compromise on a $1.2trn infrastructure bill
EVEN BEFORE the Senate voted overwhelmingly to advance a bipartisan $1.2trn infrastructure agreement, President Joe Biden hailed it as proof “that our democracy can function, deliver and do big things”. In fact, given the legislative hurdles ahead, the deal supplied evidence—tentative at that—for just the first claim. Yet for a country aghast at its own toxic partisanship, that is significant progress.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “It’s a deal”
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