The bipartisan infrastructure deal that advanced Wednesday in the Senate includes approximately $550 billion in new spending to rebuild roads and bridges, improve public transit systems and invest in broadband infrastructure, according to a detailed summary of the deal circulated to senators and obtained by The Washington Post. The new spending falls short of the $579 billion outlined in a blueprint Senate negotiators released in June, with public transit spending seeing the biggest cut.
The agreement is a quarter of President Biden’s initial $2.65 trillion American Jobs Plan, which included several Democratic priorities not traditionally considered part of core U.S. infrastructure.
How the infrastructure plans stack up
Biden’s American Jobs Plan
Bipartisan infrastructure deal
New core infrastructure spending included in both plans
$157B
$154B
$110B
$111B
$55B
$15B
0
Electric vehicles
Roads, bridges
and major
projects
Water
infrastructure
$100B
$82B
$73B
$77B
$65B
$39B
0
Broadband
Power
infrastructure
Public transit
$74B
$66B
$50B
$50B
$25B
$25B
0
Passenger and
freight rail
Resiliency
Airports
$24B
$19B
$17B
$17B
$11B
$1B
0
Reconnecting
communities
Road safety
Ports and
waterways
$16B
$21B
0
Environmental
remediation
Priorities excluded from
bipartisan deal
The deal does not include $1.7 trillion in additional spending outlined in Biden’s initial proposal.
$566B
$424B
$400B
$326B
$0
$0
$0
$0
0
Housing,
schools
and buildings
Long-term care
Tax credits
(including
clean energy)
R&D and
manufacturing
How the infrastructure plans stack up
Biden’s American Jobs Plan
Bipartisan infrastructure deal
New core infrastructure spending included in both plans
$157B
$154B
$110B
$111B
$55B
$15B
0
Electric vehicles
Roads, bridges
and major projects
Water
infrastructure
$100B
$82B
$73B
$77B
$65B
$39B
0
Broadband
Power infrastructure
Public transit
$74B
$66B
$50B
$50B
$25B
$25B
0
Passenger and
freight rail
Resiliency
Airports
$24B
$19B
$17B
$17B
$11B
$1B
0
Reconnecting
communities
Road safety
Ports and
waterways
$16B
$21B
0
Environmental
remediation
Priorities excluded from bipartisan deal
The deal does not include $1.7 trillion in additional spending outlined in Biden’s initial proposal.
$566B
$424B
$400B
$326B
$0
$0
$0
$0
0
Housing,
schools
and buildings
Long-term care
Tax credits
(including
clean energy)
R&D and
manufacturing
How the infrastructure plans stack up
Biden’s American Jobs Plan
Latest bipartisan infrastructure deal
New core infrastructure spending included in both plans
$157B
$154B
$110B
$111B
$100B
$82B
$73B
$65B
$55B
$15B
0
Electric vehicles
Roads, bridges
and major projects
Water infrastructure
Broadband
Power infrastructure
$77B
$74B
$66B
$50B
$50B
$39B
$25B
$25B
$24B
$1B
0
Public transit
Passenger and
freight rail
Resiliency
Airports
Reconnecting
communities
$19B
$17B
$17B
$16B
$21B
$11B
0
Road safety
Ports and
waterways
Environmental
remediation
Priorities excluded from bipartisan deal
$566B
The deal does not include $1.7 trillion in additional spending outlined in Biden’s initial proposal.
$424B
$400B
$326B
$0
$0
$0
$0
0
Housing, schools
and buildings
Long-term care
Tax credits
(including clean energy)
R&D and
manufacturing
How the infrastructure plans stack up
Biden’s American Jobs Plan
Latest bipartisan infrastructure deal
New core infrastructure spending included in both plans
$157B
$154B
$110B
$111B
$100B
$82B
$73B
$65B
$55B
$15B
0
Electric vehicles
Roads, bridges
and major projects
Water infrastructure
Broadband
Power infrastructure
$77B
$74B
$66B
$50B
$50B
$39B
$25B
$25B
$24B
$1B
0
Public transit
Passenger and
freight rail
Resiliency
Airports
Reconnecting
communities
$19B
$17B
$17B
$16B
$21B
$11B
0
Road safety
Ports and
waterways
Environmental
remediation
Priorities excluded from bipartisan deal
$566B
The deal does not include $1.7 trillion in additional spending outlined in Biden’s initial proposal.
$424B
$400B
$326B
$0
$0
$0
$0
0
Housing, schools
and buildings
Long-term care
Tax credits
(including clean energy)
R&D and
manufacturing
Among core infrastructure projects, electric-vehicle funding took the biggest hit, from $157 billion in Biden’s original plan to $15 billion in the latest Senate deal. Significant cuts were made to water infrastructure and broadband investment. Biden included $24 billion in his plan to fund reconnecting neighborhoods cut off by the interstate highway system, but the latest bipartisan deal dedicates only $1 billion.
Liberals have criticized Biden for agreeing to a plan that had key campaign promises stripped out. About $1.7 trillion combined for housing, schools and buildings, long-term care, tax credits, research and development and manufacturing are not part of the agreement.
Democrats hope to pass a separate bill to make up the difference using a process that would allow them to bypass Republican opposition.
Climate activists rally in favor of a climate-first infrastructure bill near the White House on June 30. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The president has struggled to balance demands for bipartisanship from moderate Democrats and Republicans and for liberal priorities from more left-wing Democrats.
“If this is the only thing that comes to me, I’m not signing it,” Biden said in announcing the earlier blueprint in June. Afterward, he clarified in a statement that he did not mean it when he said he would not sign a bipartisan deal unless it was accompanied by a broader and more liberal bill.
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Experts say several of the measures to generate revenue — some from the original June blueprint, others from the new deal announced this week — are unlikely to raise as much money as its authors say.
Major differences remain within both parties about what the spending priorities should be and how to define infrastructure.
Source: Cost estimates from the White House and Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
