(CNN) Congress has passed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill , delivering on a major pillar of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda after months of internal deliberations and painstaking divisions among Democrats. Biden called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just before midnight to congratulate her on the passage of the infrastructure bill, a source familiar with the call tells CNN. The party had already had to punt on voting on the infrastructure bill twice in two months due to a separate set of demands from progressives. Asked if she has 218 votes to pass the infrastructure bill without the social spending bill, Pelosi only said "we'll see." Progressives have demanded that both the social safety net plan and the infrastructure bill move in tandem.

Source: CNN November 06, 2021 02:40 UTC