Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure deal advanced in a major test vote on Wednesday. Seventeen Republicans joined all 50 Senate Democrats in voting for it. A final vote for the bipartisan plan will likely happen sometime in the next week or two. President Joe Biden’s $US1 ($AU1) trillion bipartisan infrastructure agreement advanced in the Senate in a major test vote late on Wednesday afternoon with backing from both Senate Democrats and Republicans. The procedural vote was 67-32, allowing it to move ahead in the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was among the 17 Republicans that voted to approve the plan, along with all 50 Senate Democrats. One Republican senator, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, was absent.