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OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 10:36 AM PT – Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Senators on both sides of the aisle finally reached a vote on the more than $1 trillion infrastructure package. On Tuesday, the bipartisan bill passed through the Senate with 19 GOP senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) siding with all Democrats. The vote comes after months of negotiations and debate, bleeding into this past weekend and the Senate’s August recess.

Roughly $550 billion is expected to be allocated toward traditional infrastructure. This includes, $110 billion to modernize roads and bridges, $66 billion to bolster America’s railroads and $40 billion to revamp our transit system. Additionally, lawmakers included $66 billion to expand the reach of America’s broadband networks.

“It’s been a long and winding road, but we have persisted and now we have arrived,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). “There were many logs in our path, detours along the way, but the American people will now see the most robust injection of funds into infrastructure in decades.”

However, Republican critics have decried provisions aimed at bolstering Democrats’ climate agenda, like the more than $7 billion for electric vehicle charging stations, the $65 billion to modernize our electric grid and $21 billion for environmental remediation projects.