US Congress passes Joe Biden’s US$1 trillion infrastructure bill
- Lawmakers rubber-stamped the Senate-passed US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill on the House floor by a comfortable 228 votes to 206
- The move marks a legacy-making achievement for Biden, amid plunging approval ratings and an upset for the Democrats in Virginia’s gubernatorial election

Despite hours of cajoling lawmakers, party leaders had risked seeing Biden’s two-pronged legislative strategy collapse as they failed to unite the party’s feuding progressive and moderate factions.
But the breakthrough came as lawmakers rubber-stamped the Senate-passed US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill on the House floor by a comfortable 228 votes to 206.

The passage of the infrastructure spending marks a legacy-making achievement for Biden, amid plunging personal approval ratings and a humiliating upset defeat for his Democratic Party in the Virginia gubernatorial election.
His spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the success was “proof that delivering for the American people is worth all the painful sausage making.”
“Clean drinking water for kids, broadband access, electric vehicles, biggest investment in public transit. It’s happening. And more to come,” she tweeted.