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Biden and Pelosi score late-night infrastructure win

7 November 2021

2:55 PM

7 November 2021

2:55 PM

For months, Democratic negotiations over Joe Biden’s twin spending bills were stuck in a cycle of infighting that felt it would never end: the unstoppable force of progressive overexcitement up against the immovable object of moderate resistance.

That deadlock was finally broken late on Friday night, when the House passed an infrastructure bill worth $550 billion in new spending.

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