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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer began the process of passing key parts of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill with a simple majority, even as bipartisan talks continue and a group of select senators announced their agreement on a basic legislative framework.
Schumer met with the 11 Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee Wednesday, where they discussed in part beginning a process known as reconciliation that skirts the Senate filibuster and could create a pathway to pass parts of the infrastructure plan to which Republicans are uniformly opposed.
Ten senators five from each party have simultaneously continued talks after compromising on a proposal totaling approximately $1.2 trillion over eight years. Half of that is expected to be new spending, with the overwhelming majority of it going towards roads, waterways and other physical infrastructure.