Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy says a bipartisan group of Senators has reached an agreement with President Biden on an infrastructure bill. Cassidy and his Senate colleagues met with the President on Thursday.
“We got a deal, largest infrastructure package in the history of the American government, a bridge is coming near you, not next year, but we’ve begun the process,” said Cassidy.
Reportedly the bill spends 1.2 trillion dollars over five years with 550 billion of it new spending. The rest is reallocated COVID relief money. The price tag is well below the President’s initial two trillion-dollar proposal.
Cassidy says the bill focuses on major infrastructure projects.
“But also important environmental things such as rebuilding coastlines, reducing the risk of flooding, it’s a good bill, we made great progress,” said Cassidy.
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