随着多名共和党人加入民主党人的努力，两党基础设施法案为周六下午参议院通过扫清了另一个障碍。
参议院以67票赞成、27票反对的表决结果，将该法案推向最终通过。目前还不清楚该法案何时会得到最终投票，但周六的投票几乎肯定会在参议院获得通过。
周六至少需要60张选票才能向前推进，18名共和党人加入了所有民主党人，这一障碍很容易被清除。
该法案价值5500亿美元的新支出，将解决核心基础设施需求。其中包括1100亿美元用于道路和桥梁的新资金、660亿美元用于铁路、75亿美元用于建设电动汽车充电站、170亿美元用于港口、250亿美元用于机场、550亿美元用于清洁饮用水、650亿美元用于高速互联网等。
该法案的通过将证明是总统的巨大成功乔·拜登他在竞选中承诺要跨党派合作，也支持民主党和共和党的议员们，他们为了起草法案挤了几个星期。
参议院周末一直在努力完成这项两党法案，并着手制定第二项更大的预算法案，民主党人希望该法案将包括拜登美国家庭计划的其余优先事项。
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德克斯两党基础设施框架程序投票后的新闻发布会..
该法案将包括住房、医疗保健、儿童保健等方面的资金，可能需要按照党派路线强行通过。参众两院的民主党领导层都坚持认为两党法案和预算法案必须一起推进。
一旦参议院完成两党法案的工作，它将前往众议院，众议院议长南希·佩洛西威胁要推迟对该法案的投票，直到预算法案通过。
民主党在众议院的优势微乎其微，一些进步的民主党人对两党基础设施法案的范围不感兴趣，他们威胁说，如果没有一个稳健的预算法案，他们将拒绝支持该法案。
Senate advances bipartisan infrastructure bill in key test vote
With multiple Republicans joining Democrats in the effort, the bipartisan infrastructure bill cleared another hurdle on its way to passing the Senate on Saturday afternoon.
By a vote of 67-27, the Senate voted to advance the bill toward final passage. It's not yet clear when the bill will receive a final vote, but Saturday's vote makes all but certain that it will pass the Senate.
At least 60 votes were necessary to move forward on Saturday, a hurdle easily cleared with 18 Republicans joining all Democrats.
The bill, worth $550 billion in new spending, will address core infrastructure needs. It includes $110 billion in new funds for roads and bridges, $66 billion for rail, $7.5 billion to build out electric vehicle charging stations, $17 billion for ports, $25 billion for airports, $55 billion for clean drinking water, a $65 billion investment in high-speed internet and more.
Passage of the bill will prove a huge success for PresidentJoe Biden, who campaigned on a promise to work across the aisle, and for the lawmakers, both Democratic and Republican, who huddled for weeks in an effort to craft the bill.
The Senate has been working through the weekends to try to finish up this bipartisan bill and move on to work on a second, larger budget bill that Democrats hope will include the remainder of Biden's American Families Plan priorities.
That bill, set to include funding for housing, health care, child care and more, will likely need to be forced through along party lines. Democratic leadership in both chambers has insisted that both the bipartisan bill and the budget bill must move together.
Once the Senate finishes work on the bipartisan bill, it will head to the House, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi has threatened to postpone a vote on it until the budget bill is sent her way.
Democrats hold a razor-thin margin in the House, and some progressive Democrats, underwhelmed by the scope of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, have threatened to withhold their support for the bill without a robust budget bill in tandem.
