After passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill on a 69-30 vote Tuesday 19 Republicans joining all the Democrats the Senate worked into the early morning hours, finally passing a much larger, $3.5 trillion budget resolution, this time with only Democrat votes.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stressed that infrastructure is popular with Democrats as well as Republicans after former President Trump criticized a $1 trillion bipartisan proposal
Nineteen Republicans voted in favor of the $1 trillion infrastructure package in the Senate. But progressives and moderate Democrats disagree on the next steps.
Its passage marked another critical milestone in Democrats’ complex economic agenda, which includes new public-works improvements that Republicans support and a slew of additional policy proposals that the GOP does not.